Robotics

Robotics at The Polygon School.

Recently we have purchased a set of educational robots for the Computing Department. We have two mBots and a mBot ranger. These are fantastic educational tools that work with Arduino Microboard. They allow the pupils to use both text-based and block-based programming. 

The boys used their coding skills to programme the robots through a variety of challenges. Initially they were able to instruct the robots to use their infra-red sensors to track a line of tap on the ground. This lead to them recreating their favourite F1 tracks in the hall. 

Next they took control of the robots remotely via bluetooth and a tablet. This results in the hall being used as a racing track itself.

Lastly the robots had their delicate sensors removed and became sumo wrestlers. The boys used the markings in the hall as their ring and tried to outmaneuver and out-muscle their opponents.