Education & Robotics

In 2018, the French Higher Committee on Curricula (CSP) decided to make Python the official computer language for programming classes in secondary schools. The Ministry of Education has provided more information about these new programmes on the CSP publications page of its website (in French). Python will be used for lessons in digital science and[…]
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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to start with the robotic mouse Colby / Jack from Learning Resources. On the program: logic, geometry, animals! Activities with the robot mouse Colby Short introduction of the robot mouse Colby Colby is a little robot mouse. It can make sounds, turn on its little light and it[…]
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This tutorial explains how you can use a serial protocol to control the mBot educational robot. You can adapt the code to make it more suitable for your project (or for use in RoboCup Jr events for example). Robot teleoperation with an XBee chip offers 2 major advantages: How does our assembly work? The system[…]
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The Makey Makey kit allows you to transform objects into keyboards ! Modelling clay, sponge, pencil lead… All you need are objects that conduct electricity , a bit of imagination and a few programming blocks on the Scratch software, and children can realise various projects, such as the famous banana piano , a video gamepad[…]
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This Arduino based project tutorial was created by an amateur and is mainly aimed at other amateurs, or anyone with a bit of curiosity for this type of electronic DIY projects. The author appeals in advance to the benevolence of the venerable experts whom would like to dig a little in the code or in[…]
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Inirobot is a sequence of educational activities which will allow pupils and teachers to become acquainted with robotics. The robotic platform chosen for the implementation of this project is the educational robot Thymio II. With its small size, light weight and colored leds, the Thymio II is the ideal learning tool for kids! The 3[…]
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What are the differences between Ozobot Bit and Ozobot Evo? Bit and Evo are two small robots from Ozobot and they both are about the size of a walnut. At the beginning, we were a little sceptical – what could be possible with such a small robot? But they have convinced us very fast: small[…]
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What we think of the hardware The Pi-TopCEED consists of a high-quality screen that is a pleasant size to use. It uses a Raspberry Pi 3 board (with embedded WiFi and Bluetooth) as a processor. The board has a Quad Core and 1 GB of RAM, which is enough for programming, surfing on the Internet[…]
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Version 2 of the Metabot robot, developed by the LaBRI lab and the Rhoban System start-up, has just been released! This robotics kit is available exclusively at Generation Robots . Building the Metabot v2 robot In the parcel delivered to your mailbox, you’ll find everything you need to build your Metabot robot : the XL-320 Dynamixel motors ,[…]
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Using a 100 MHz, 16-channel, USB Logic Analyzer to eavesdrop on the Lego NXT brick’s I2C bus This tutorial shows how to use the 100 MHz, 16-channel, USB Logic Analyzer developed by Saleae. Here, we are going to eavesdrop on I2C communication between a Lego Mindstorms NXT intelligent brick and an NXT ultrasonic sensor. This[…]
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