Good for older kids as well! I'm having one of these! For me software is the difficult bit so this is ideal to play around with and practice coding. Definitely more microbit please Paul!
Nice!!! I like it :) I have plans for a long time to play with such a device. I think it is so much fun to make this thing into a kind of living creature. So I am looking forward to a follow up; thanks Paul :)
Good video, thanks for demonstrating this great little robot. As a TV license payer the BBC does irritate me sometimes. But they do do education very well. The BBC brought about and part funded the original BBC Micro which gave its name and inspiration to the Raspberry Pi (Model A, Model B, plus etc.). The BBC Micro built by Acorn was the development platform for the original ARM processor (as in Acorn RISC Machine). So the BBC gave the world the Micro:Bit (this little robot), the smartphone and All the Things, in a roundabout kind of way. Go BBC! (And hooray for public education).
@@learnelectronics Were you referring to the Acorn Archimedes? It makes me smile that almost no one knows that the Apple/Samsung/Motorola etc. they use everyday has an Acorn inside.
You could change the code in order to make it change speed and direction when there are no obstacles, so that it can explore 'empty space' in a more curious way. Add a few lines so that when it senses an obstacle it decelerates, stops, looks around and choose the direction where the obstacle is farther away. Possibly with random delays, so that it might seem to be thinking what to do.
This is a great little robot unit.I have a few other robot kits there are more on a difficult scale your robot it's real easy putting together download the code really nice unit for the younger kids great product yes I like to know more info about your robots I want to get my seven-year-old grandson a robot so he can put together he helped me put together my other robot car and using a cell phone to control it and loved it. He can have one of his own thanks Paul
Really nice little robot, dude. Great job! 😃 In college we did a class on robots and we had to program a robot so they could fight... It was AI class, I guess, and it wasn't real robots, it was all done in a software. But anyway, what I did was to study the sample codes and then start to program my robot... Then I put it to fight and made changes... And so on. Well, what I remember is that I started simple but, in the end, it was super complex! 😂
I would really reccomend the Micro:bit for younger kids. Super easy to grasp the coding and from there they can move on to Arduino or raspberry Pi with ease.
@@robertcalkjr.8325 Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
Well, that's too easy to program. 😀 Javascript is an easy language to learn and as long as you can get some real code out of the plug and play then it could be a learning platform for much older students too. Block programming is great for young beginners. Okay so make it do something smarter, follow lines, detect motion or something. Thank you for sharing the Microbit robot and the video!
Thanks for the review and also the micro:bit video. I thought it would be a good platform for my 7 yr old. I have been trying to get hold of this DF Robot model in the UK but most places only sell the MOVE:mini ( www.kitronik.co.uk/5624-move-mini-buggy-kit-excl-microbit.html ) so I would have to import it. I do quite like the other parts available for the MOVE though e.g. the Bulldozer, Tipper Trailer, Bumper etc. Would be interested in a comparison review if you can get hold of the MOVE plus accessories. Thanks again.
