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- 29 Jul 2024
In this lesson, students learn about the force sensor pressure block and the forever loop.
The main tasks of the lesson involve programming the robot to move its wheel at a speed proportional to how hard the force sensor is pressed. The first two tasks are designed to reveal the problems that occur when the robot moves too fast. After this, the new blocks are introduced.
At the end of the lesson, you can have a game where the students try to reach full speed and then drop back down to zero smoothly, without the minifigs hitting anything. The program should look something like this:
Courses and lessons with this Tutorial
This Tutorial is used in the following courses and lessons
Level B1 - Carnival - Robotics with LEGO SPIKE Prime
This is the third level of the LEGO Robotics Curriculum for students in second, third, or fourth grades.
Carnival and Amusement Park Level. Each lesson has a theme related to carnivals and amusement parks. Students learn about physics concepts of inertia, center of mass, and centrifugal force. New ways of programming the force and distance sensors are introduced. We work with new concepts: forever loop, if/then, and if/else.
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Lesson 2 - Spinning ride
Introduction
What is a spinning ride? Have you been on one?
A spinning ride is a carnival ride that spins people very fast! There are different versions: some just spin, while others go up and down or tilt. Our version today goes up and down due to centrifugal force!
Centrifugal force is a force that pulls a rotating object away from the center of rotation. For example, if you fill a bucket with some water and start spinning it fast, the water stays at the bottom of the bucket even if the bucket is sideways or even upside down!
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