First Meeting

Meeting Guidance  Respect the teachers and volunteers.  Respect other students and share equally.  Be kind to the laptops and the robots!  Ask for help if having trouble with equipment. DO NOT fix yourself.  Do not attempt to do things other than the project plan. (Including surfing the web).  Ask before going to restrooms.

Home Review  Review work will be given to be done between club sessions  The expectation will be that the work is done.  Kids that come to club with review sheets done will get their name in a drawing for prize each month.

Robot Handling  Use upmost care, no rough handling of robots at anytime. This includes not touching Fluke dongle.  Please use both hands at all times when handling Scribby. No, one handed robot pickups! Do NOT grab by wheels or dongle, ONLY by body!

More safe Robot handling  Keep Scribby on the ground during exercises. Robots will run off table without stopping and break. Keep on floor even if you don’t think it will move.  Keep your EYES open for robots.  NO running, step carefully.

Working In Pairs  Each team member gets a turn programming the exercise, unless other instruction is given  Communication is important  Agree on the direction before typing  Be a Peacebuilder and respect each other

Meet Scribbler  This robot is a Scribbler robot, aka. “Scribby”. It runs on a special language called Python. You will need to speak in Python for Scribby to understand you.  We use instructions called commands to talk to Scribby. Each command tells the robot to do something. The case of the letters make a difference to Scribby.  pLeaSe, may make sense to you but Scribby understands a capital to mean a change.

Python Installation Point   Other Good Links

Robot Care – Setup  Get your team’s scribbler robot and matching netbook.  Get batteries for the robot.  Make sure the number on the robot, dongle and netbook match.  Insert the batteries in the Scribbler Robot.  Connect the Fluke Dongle, being sure to only touch the side edges of the dongle.  Close up the Scribbler Robot box and set it aside for the end of class

Netbook Care - Begin  Start up the netbook  Logon: Username: Password:  Start, type Python  Click IDLE(Python GUI) With this icon

How to connect to robot  Make sure robot is turned on. Red switch turns on Scribby.  Before Scribby gets instructions (commands). You have to get his attention.  2 Basic commands 1. from myro import * 2. init(“ ”): for example, init(“com3”) 3. Did Scribby make the set up noises that it is on?

Basic move commands  Forward(, )  Backward(, )  turnLeft(, )  turnRight(, )  Note that the L and R is capital. This is important to tell Scribby you are giving him a new word. Also we talk in time and speed not degrees to Scribby.

Just stop!  Stop command ○ stop()  Reset if all else fails. Where is the button? Locate your robots reset.

Myro Guide Sheet  Examine the guide sheet. Note what is typed to get Scribby to move forward.  What would you type to move Scribby forward 2 feet?  What do you need to type before you can begin?  How do you know if your message is getting through?  What do you do if you want Scribby to stop?

Test time  Try giving robot commands and finding out what it does from the command.  Can you make robot turn around 3 times?  Can you make robot go forward and come back?  How much of a turn occurs if you enter 0.5 seconds for a turn?

Robot Care – Clean up  Turn off the Scribbler Robot  Shutdown the Net Book that you are using with the Scribbler Robot  Remove the batteries from the Scribbler Robot and place in the charger  Disconnect the Fluke Dongle and put it in its box  Put the Scribbler Robot in its box  Put the Fluke box in the Robot box

Netbook Care - Cleanup  Start->Shutdown netbook  Black netbooks go back in the box

 Home Review is due next week at the beginning of class. Home Review