Dear Bloggers,
Last week 3A, 3C and 4N designed and made planes. The planes had a tilt sensor and the children wrote programs so when the plane tilted upwards the engine went faster and when the plane tilted downwards the engine went at a random speed. Fast worked carried out further programming to associate other actions with the tilt of the plane such as sounds and different messages appearing on the display.
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Mrs Garlick
Dear Bloggers,
3A successfully made and programmed lions to rise up and roar and then to sit down and sleep. Things became more complex when the children attached tilt sensors to food and fed it to their lions. The lions were then programmed to sit down and make eating sounds.
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Mrs Garlick
Dear Bloggers,
Stage 2 students were all ‘a flap’ in class – not because there was a problem but because they built and programmed a bird with flapping wings. The model bird had large wings and using CAM gears as shoulder blades the children were able to flap the wings up and down. The birds had swivel necks and were able to bend to the ground. The students attached a tilt sensor onto the bird and programmed the robot to make swooshing wing flap sounds when the tilt sensor was moved. Fast workers then placed a motion sensor into position so that the robotic bird could make pecking sounds when it bent forwards to eat. Have a look at the fun in the photos below.
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Mrs Garlick