Tech Explorations™ Arduino Robotics with The mBot

Tech Explorations™ Arduino Robotics with the mBot
.MP4 | Video: 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | 1.87 GB
Duration: 5 hours | Genre: eLearning Video | Language: English

An introduction to robotics with the world's friendliest learning robot

What you'll learn

Program the mBot on the tablet device
Program the mBot on the PC
Use the mBot sensors and actuators
Program the mBot using the Scratch language
Come up with your own fun experiments for the mBot

Requirements

Absolutely nothing. We'll start at the beginning.
Purchase an mBot kit
Download the free programming interface for Windows/Mac OS
Download the free programming interface for tablets

Description

This course will introduce you to the mBot, the world's friendliest educational robotics platform. The mBot is an Arduino-based, two-wheel robot that comes with build-in sensors and actuators, and that you can program using Scratch, a graphical programming language.

The mBot is also extensible, with a lot of components available that you can use to build your own robotic creations.

In this course, I will show you how to assemble the mBot, discuss the additional hardware options, and demonstrate how to program it on your tablet and your Windows or Mac OS computer.

The main project of the course involves programming the mBot to follow an arbitrary black line on the floor. In this project we must combine our robot's sensors and actuators efficiently to enable it to stay on the line while it travels on it as quickly as possible.

At first glance, you may think that getting a robot to follow a line is easy. That's not true for a robot.

As the programmer, you must "teach the robot" to do something that to a human is intuitive. You need to extract the intuitive understanding of how to follow a line and convert it into code.

The required hardware is the mBot itself, and a computer (Windows or Mac OS). You can purchase an mBot direct from its manufacturer, Makeblock, or from your local reseller. You can download the software from free from the Makeblock website.

Who this course is for:

School students and homeschoolers interested in robotics projects
Teachers, interested to learn skills for a STEM class
Electronics hobbyists looking for a gentle introduction to robotics
Parents looking for a fun educational activities to take with their children