Intro to Robots Into to Robots: Lab #1

Intro to Robots The Robot. Your robot should look like this: Scribbler: Your robot. You can download programs onto the robot and control its behaviour. Bluetooth/Serial adapter: The Bluetooth part communicates with your computer; the serial part with Scribble. There is a name taped to the adapter. Serial cable: The connection between the adapter and Scribbler Scribbler Bluetooth/Serial adapter; velcroed in place Serial cable

Intro to Robots The Computer: You should have a device something like this plugged into a USB port on your computer: On the system tray of your computer (bottom right-hand corner of screen) you should find the following icon. Right click that icon and select Bluetooth Settings.

Intro to Robots Bluetooth Settings: Double click the Bluetooth connection you want to establish. The name of the connection should be taped to the Bluetooth/Serial adapter on your robot. At this point the computer and the Bluetooth/Serial adapter are talking to each other but the robot is still not in communication with the computer

Intro to Robots Making the Connection: Start the IDLE GUI. Execute: from myro import * initialize(“com40”) If you get this message everything is working fine. The exact com port number is written on the paper taped to the Bluetooth/Serial adapter.

Intro to Robots Starting to Play: Change your robot’s name Check the new name Now move the robot around setName(“newName”) getName() joyStick()

Intro to Robots JoyStick() Click the mouse anywhere in the joyStick window and watch the robot move.

Intro to Robots joyStick Exercise: Put the robot on a writing surface and use the joy stick to make the robot draw a square. Draw a 5-pointed star with the robot. How different is what you are doing from what a surgeon does when she uses a robot to perform surgery?

Intro to Robots MyRo Language Reference: At the above site check out the meanings of the functions beep(), forward(), backward(), turnLeft(), turnRight() and stop(). Test each of these functions.