Prologue: Today's plan is to work on some robot letter patterns with e-pucks...both on Webots and with the actual e-pucks. This work should highlight how simulating the robots in software first, takes out a lot of guess work from programming the robot hardware.
The workshop got off to a regular start. Today we looked at using Webots to control the e-puck robot. We attached a pen to the epuck robot inside Webots so that it could make a pattern on the floor. We went through the basic steps that lets a robot go in a straight line - forwards or backwards, make an angular turn and make a circular turn. We then used the robot to draw the letters corresponding to the name of each student team - SPIRIT, NAO, AIBO and S(ilver) Fox. Every team made a movie of their robot's pattern making, which will be shown to the parents at the meeting tomorrow. We will also show different patterns that robots can make at tomorrow's parent meeting.
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