Robots and Physical Computing

ChatGPT (with a plus account) have launched an application in BETA to try - Code Interpreter that can be used to produce the start of of an analysis of data. Producing Python code for the analysis  - Pandas based. Prompt 1 So load in a file of COVID data from 2021 and type in the prompt " Acts as a data scientist and analze the datashet amd make charts and graphs to show major trends" Even with the spelling mistakes it did the following:    Acts as a data scientist and analze the datashet amd make charts and graphs to show major trends covid_1.csv ChatGPT Great, let's start by loading the dataset and examining its structure. Finished working Show work It seems like the dataset does not have any column names. The dataset consists of three columns. Could you please provide some context about what these columns represent? This will help me to analyze the data more accurately. Prompt 2 Follow-up prompt " first column is days, the second is group...

Microbit Remote Control CBiS Car Posted by Scott Turner Coral Dev Board and Raspberry Pi Posted by Scott Turner Speech Recognition in Scratch 3 - turning Hello into Bonjour! Posted by Scott Turner Scratch Robot Arm Posted by Scott Turner Free Web based Augmented Reality (AR) 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. Twitter @scottturneruon

Microbit Remote Control CBiS Car I wanted to contol the CBiS micro:Bit Car via gestures whilst holding another micro:Bit (see Figure 1) I went for: - Button A in combinat... 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 ... Escape the Maze with a VR robot - Vex VR You don't need to buy a robot to get programming a robot, now there are a range of free and relatively simple to start with robot simula... Crumblebot - explorer bot? In an earlier post I played with 4Tronix's CrumbleBot to make an edge follower robot ( http://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.co.uk/... Programming Robots Virtually 4: Preview of Edbot Studio In previous post I looked at a few on-line robot simulators (see links below) Programming VEX Code Programming  iRobot Simulator Programming... Top read post on Blog in Feb 2020 Popular Posts Moving Eyes with an Adafruit Adabox kit...

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...

Speech Recognition in Scratch 3 - turning Hello into Bonjour! The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released a programming activity Alien Language , with support Dale from Machine Learning for Kids , tha... PS3 Controller to move a USB Robot Arm Guest Blogger Hiren Mistry, Nuffield Research Placement Student working at the University of Northampton. How to use a PS3 Controller to... Scratch Robot Arm It is not physical but CBiS Education have release a free robot arm simulator for Scratch.  Downloadable from their site  http://w... Tinkercad and Microbit: To make a neuron The free online CAD (and so much more) package Tinkercad  https://www.tinkercad.com/ under circuits; now has microbits as part of the list ... Escape the Maze with a VR robot - Vex VR You don't need to buy a robot to get programming a robot, now there are a range of free and relatively simple to start with robot simula... Easy, Free and no markers Augmented Reality - location based AR For a few years...

The last of the posts on the Hug avoider and the 4Tronix's Eggbit 4Tronix's Eggbit (in fact I bought three of them  https://shop.4tronix.co.uk/collections/bbc-micro-bit/products/eggbit-three-pack-special   :-) recently) is a cute add-on for the microbit. In three previous posts I looked at eggbit using microcode to  produce a hug avoider - warns when people at too close. - https://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.com/2021/12/hug-avoider-2-4tronix-eggbit.html -  4tronix Eggbit - cute and wearable - hug avoider Hug Avoider 3 - experiments with Python and 4Tronix Eggbit In this post using the buttons and adding (via Microbit V2 with its speaker) simple speech 1. Buttons Pins for the buttons pin8 - Green button pin12 - Red button pin14 - Yellow button pin`6 - Blue button     if pin12.read_digital()==1:         #Red Button         blank_it()     if pin8.read_digital()==1:         #Green but...