Drone at Code Club

We are putting our coding to the test at Code Club after school. pic.twitter.com/CcFi5Mg4PK

— St Luke's Primary (@DustonStLukes) May 24, 2016

Recently i have been taking a Parrot minedrone and the Tickle App (https://tickleapp.com/en-us/) to Code Club session, as an extra activity.

For those there actually programmed something that flies and it is quite engaging - having something you are controlling being able to move in all directions.


I wish the mini-drone had a little bit more battery time (I would suggest getting an extra battery). Combining with the drone and the Tickle App does add something to the experience, rather than just control it directly (though that is fun). The noise is also not to everyone's taste so it has to be used carefully in that context, but also from a safety point of view.

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Blog stats - March 2016

The blog has been going less than a year (first post was 15th July 2015) but I thought the statistics about the blog so far might be of interest.

The Top Ten posts based on page views:

mbots - graphical programming and Arduino

22 Jul 2015, 

716

It is a good time to play with little robots

14 Nov 2015, 

401

Raspberry Pi gesture controlled Minecraft X-Wing

3 Jan 2016, 

395

Scratch Robot Arm

23 Jul 2015, 

385

OhBot Experiment

13 Aug 2015, 

323

Experience at Raspberry Pi Cademy 7-8th December 2...

12 Dec 2015, 

318

Raspberry Pi Controlled robot from junk

19 Jul 2015, 

301

Playing with Tickle and Mini-drone

4 Aug 2015, 

300

Raspberry Pi gesture controlled Minecraft X-Wing (...

24 Jan 2016, 

299

Raspberry Pi - Python Junkbot

17 Jan 2016, 

286

So small robots and Raspberry Pi, which I was hoping for as they are my interests as well.



The audience based on pages views is an interesting mix and not really sure what to make of it, apart from I hope they are all finding it useful.

Pageviews by Countries

Entry	Pageviews
United States	8650
Slovakia	1664
United Kingdom	1390
France	394
Germany	305
Ireland	96
Russia	80
Singapore	73
Portugal	72
Sweden	43

Comments and ideas are welcome, i would love to find out what others are doing.



All opinions in this blog are the Author's and should not in any way be seen as reflecting the views of any organisation the Author has any association with.