Exploring Robotics with Electronics: Boe-Bot Activity Worksheet
Chapter 1: Your Boe-Bot’s Brain
Name: Date:
Class: Teacher:
Objectives/Outcomes:
By the time students complete this section they will be able to:
· Unpack the Boe-Bot box and verify that all parts are available. Use the Boe-Bot Inventory Sheet.
· (OPTIONAL) Install the Parallax Basic Stamp software for Boe-Bot.
· Setup the basic stamp hardware
· Test the hardware and software connection for the Microcontroller
· Understand how the Boe-Bot is connected to the Comm Port of the computer
· Find and use the Help file for the Basic Stamp
· Write and run a simple PBasic program
· Demonstrate team building skills by participating in a robotics team.
· Demonstrate problem solving by setting up software and taking inventory of robot hardware components.
· (OPTIONAL) Begin an Engineering Notebook for Boe-Bot assembly.
Assignments Checklist:
Put an X in Done for item as it is completed. Your instructor will assign any Points when reviewing the worksheet.
Done / Points / Description1. View the videos.
2. Read and follow the instructions in Robotics with the Boe-Bot Chapter 2.
3. Review the Key Points or FAQs.
4. Complete the Boe-Bot activities assigned by your instructor. If self-study, do all the “Your Turn” parts for each activity in the chapter. Record observations in the Activity observations in this document.
5. Generate a video or demonstrate completion of the Your Turn activities. (optional – ask instructor)
6. Fill in the Observations to Answer the questions at the end of the chapter.
7. Complete the Programming Exercises at the end of the chapter and answer the questions.
8. Complete the Projects at the end of the chapter and answer the questions.
9. Send this completed worksheet to your instructor.
TOTAL POINTS
Activity Observations:
What happened as you completed each of the activities? Also what happened for each of the YourTurns that are part of the activity? What worked and what did not work as anticipated? What did you do to correct things that didn’t work? What did you learn or what was new to you? (Note refer to the objectives at the beginning of this document for clues on what should be learned.)
Activity #1 : Getting the Software
Activity #2 : Using the Help File for Hardware Setup
END OF CHAPTER:
Observations: Fill in the answers after each question.
1) What device will be the brain of your Boe-Bot?
2) When the BASIC Stamp sends a character to your PC/laptop, what type of numbers are used to send the message through the programming cable?
3) What is the name of the window that displays messages sent from the BASIC Stamp to your PC/laptop?
4) What PBASIC commands did you learn in this chapter? List and show how each command is used in code.
Programming Exercises
1. Explain what the asterisk does in this command: DEBUG DEC 7 * 11
2. Guess what the Debug Terminal would display if you ran this command:
DEBUG DEC 7 + 11
3. There is a problem with these two commands. When you run the code, the numbers they display are stuck together so that it looks like one large number instead of two small ones. Modify these two commands so that the answers appear on different lines in the Debug Terminal.
DEBUG DEC 7 * 11
DEBUG DEC 7 + 11
Project
1. Use DEBUG to display the solution to the math problem: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4.
(Insert code here)
2. Save FirstProgramYourTurn.bs2 under another name. If you were to place the DEBUG command shown below on the line just before the END command in the program, what other lines could you delete and still have it work the same? Modify the copy of the program to test your hypothesis (your prediction of what will happen).
DEBUG "What's 7 X 11?", CR, "The answer is: ", DEC 7 * 11
(Insert code here)
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