Barclays Technology AwarenessThe Robot Challenge – Further Materials

Technology Awareness Programme

The Technology Awareness Programme was put together to help young people develop skills to create digital content and not just be consumers of it.

Further information, help and resources are available here:

https://barclaysapps.wordpress.com/

The sample code for the sketches is available here:

https://github.com/daverobertson63/RoboticsChallenge

The Robots

The robots we use are 4Tronix Initios with Arduino computers. They cost about £110 each and come as a self-assembly kit.

We get them from here:

http://www.4tronix.co.uk/store

There are lots of alternative robots available from many vendors at a variety of prices, or you can build your own from components. There are loads of projects and ideas published on the internet for doing all sorts of things.

The Computer

The computer we are using is called an Arduino. They are cheap and simple computers but very versatile.

We program them from laptops using a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and a language called C.

C is one of the most widely used programming languages. Many other languages are based on C, such as Java (Android) and Objective-C (iOS).

http://www.arduino.cc

Scratch Robot Simulator

We have developed a Robot Challenge simulator for Scratch:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43018110/

Contacts

If you would like any help with ideas you might have to develop additional materials or lesson plans, based on this challenge please contact:

Carol Morriscarol.morris@barclays.com0776 636 1741

Anthony Wilcoxanthony.wilcox@barclays.com0777 555 2568

Simon Wilmot simon.wilmot@barclays.com0777 555 3969