Day 1 of the Botball workshop. We were in room 323 with about 60 to 80 people attending.
The fourth floor of the convention center has a nice water feature with sculpture.
The robot kits included enough parts to build two robots, including an iRobot Create, the platform for the Roomba.
Participants were attentive and very busy learning programming and the features of the robot kit.
Ryan, Khoi, and Andrea.
The philosophy of being a mentor includes the notion that the students do the work, so I told the kids that if I ever touched
the computer, to slap my hand. However, sometimes it's faster to just write a few lines of code as an example.
The Honolulu Festival was going on simultaneously on the ground floor with hula dancers in the lobby.
Inside the exhibition hall were more performers, food vendors, and art and craft sellers of all kinds.
One of the first activities was to put the CBC (controller) on the Create and get it to run around.
Ryan and Khoi work on the various exercises.
During a break we enjoyed a 3rd floor garden alcove with a lion head fountain.
The sessions were led by Professor Dave Miller from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. As you can see, most of the subject
matter was programming in C.
Ryan and Khoi got the robot to follow a pink ball using the camera.
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