Robots and Physical Computing

In this series of posts, I am going to look at experimenting with a few  tools that allow robots to be simulated, programmed, these are ideally web-based, free and simple to use. In this post,the focus is on one that has been around for a while Makecode for the  LEGO Mindstorms EV3  robotics kit available at  https://makecode.mindstorms.com/#editor  another example of the flexible MakeCode format. A very useful guide to using this coding tool is available at  https://makecode.com/blog/lego/05-15-2018 This time it does not give you a built robot but a programmable simulation of the Brick, all the sensors and motors; which it automatically connects together depending on the code (see above). I like this idea it means it is flexible, as well as encouraging thinking about the design and operations of the programs before trying it out physically. So to experiment with it.  I played with a number of elements: When touch sensor is pressed (lo...