![]() ![]() The activity is designed to be very portable, requiring no equipment (other than chairs, tables etc!) from the school. Students can then decorate it however they want. When you wave at the SparkBot, it waves back! It uses a simple input (ultrasonic sensor), processor (the Arduino) and output (movement of the servo controlling the hands). SparkBots is a day long workshop, where children (suitable for ages 12 and up) learn the basics of robotics and build their own small robot. It is a great way to avoid having to pass a circuit around the glass - you can just pop it on the board and click 'run simulation'! Students continually looked at the schematics to follow, and actually got annoyed if they were taken off the board as they wanted to get on with building (see the picture above of them intently looking at Tinkercad on the projector)! I actually don't think it would have been possible to design and run this activity without Tinkercad - no other free application integrates the mechanical, electrical and software components so smoothly. When researching how to teach pupils Arduino and robotics, I really struggled to find information, especially designed for a school setting, so I've tried to make this Instructable as comprehensive as possible. ![]() ![]() With previous workshops I have run they have been targeted to a much younger audience, making very simple projects that teach basic robotics principles. For a long time I had been looking to develop a toolkit to provide workshops on robotics. ![]()
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