7) Going around the Moon – Tutorial & Challenge.
Let us pretend that LucyBot leaves the “Earth,” goes out to one side
of side of our “Moon”, goes around the Moon, and comes back to land
safely on Earth.
To see how to
get ready to “Go Around the Moon”, click here. First we want
to teach LucyBot to go out in to space, alongside our Moon.
To see how to teach LucyBot
to go out to our Moon, click here. Next we need to teach her
to move in a gentle curve.
To see how to teach LucyBot
to go around our Moon, click here. Coming safely back to
Earth is really important!
To see how to
teach LucyBot to return to our Earth, click here. How many
ways can you teach your Robot to “Go around the Moon”? In the past
our students have made many marvellous attempts at teaching their
Robots to go in an imaginary journey around the moon - here are a
few we managed to capture. The first video shows some of the first
Robot journeys.
To see
some first Moon runs, click here. If our Robotics Session
was a longer one, some students had time to be more ambitious. Take
a look at these, especially the last one, where everything went
wrong, but like the Astronauts in Apollo 13, he persevered, and
eventually overcame his problems and got back to Earth - even if he
is the only student in ¾ of a decade of assisting multiple schools
that I have seen bring his Space Craft in to Earth backwards!
Incredible persistence!
To
see more advanced Moon runs, click here.
