Robots and Physical Computing

BBC micro bot - tweeting BBC Basic (updated) BBC Mirco Bot site  https://www.8bitkick.cc/bbc-micro-bot.html  - where you tweet  @bbcmicrobot  and run BBC Basic code on BBC Micro emulator. It returns a video of your code running. Programming Robots Virtually 1 - VEXcode VR For a number of years, I have been playing with robots as a means of developing programming/coding skills with students.  Coral Dev Board and Raspberry Pi This is the second of a planned occasional series of posts on playing with some of the current AI specific add-on processors for Intenet of  things (IoT) Programming Robots Virtually 2: iRobot Simulator In this series of posts, I am going to look at experimenting with a few  tools that allow robots to be simulated, programmed PS3 Controller to move a USB Robot Arm Guest Blogger Hiren Mistry, Nuffield Research Placement Student working at the University of Northampton. Ho...

I have recently been teaching a module on Internet Programming on a MSc Computing programme (see related links), and was looking for a way to introduce a little bit of physical computing to finish of the module - micro:bits offer a route. So a bit of context; most of the students on the module had first degrees in either networking or software engineering; so before they start the module they are competent in programming with Javascript, HTML, CSS and PHP. Therefore the module looked to develop new areas such as introductory blockchain ,  virtual reality via the web (e.g. WebVR), using social media sources; but lastly looking at physical computing leading to an insight into the Internet of Things (IoT). As part of this last topic gaining some experience of programming and very simple networking was looked at using the micro:bit. An activity was produced where: they, in pairs, initially replicate some code and work out how it worked; they then took the code and experim...