Robots and Physical Computing

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How do you fancy, building and programming a Batmobile? A recently fulfilled Kickstarter project from Circuitmess allows just that  https://circuitmess.com/products/batmobile ;an autonomous 'car' kit, programmable and controlled through a separate controller. It can also be programmed through their  CircuitBlocks environment based on MakeCode and Blockly - this approach is the starting point for this first play. There is not going to be discussion on the building of the controller and the batmobile, in this post; Circuitmess have provided detailed instructions here:  https://circuitmess.com/blogs/resources/batmobile-build-guide   Below is a video showing it off a bit and some of the functions produced by the manufacturers. The video largely shows going through the controller to interact with the Batmobile. You can as well start coding through  https://code.circuitmess.com/  the Circuitmess coding app mentioned earlier, and choose a sketch. The controll...

In previous post I looked at a few on-line robot simulators (see links below) Programming VEX Code Programming  iRobot Simulator Programming Lego EV3 simulator A recent addition to these is the Edbot Studio Virtual Playground https://studio.ed.bot/;   a preview of simulation technology for  Robots in Schools Ltd  Edbot robots.  Two Edbot robots are shown in a gym; you can select actions for the robots to carry out, including Gangam-style dancing and Head Stands. This is really a preview of the tech, rather than a programming option - at the moment . Robots in Schools Ltd, who make the Edbots, say the Virtual Playground will be part of their Edbot Studio a browser-based Environment to allow both coding in Scratch, Python and JavaScript, of both virtual and real robots. I am really curious to see the full Edbot Studio in action when it is released, but for the moment getting virtual robots to dance and kick is still really good fun. The physical robots -EdBot are...