Using Drones and Block Coding to Teach Basic Programming

Description

• Difficulty Level: Intermediate
  
• Target Audience: Middle School and Up
  
• Duration of workshop: Approximately 1 Hour
  
• Needed Materials: CoDrone Lite, Computer with bluetooth support.
  
• Using CoDrones, the aim of this project is to teach others about basic programming concepts through changing the behavior of the drones with block coding.
  
• CoDrones are small and simple drones that are designed to be programmable in various languages including block coding and python.

Team

Members

• Chenanniah Mac-Cephas
  
• Phillip Chazares
  
• Vi Nguyen
  
• Zachary Idrees
  

Advisors

• Dr. Anca Doloc Mihu
  
• Dr. Cindy Robertson
  

Outreach Activities

1. Classroom Workshops on Apr 14, Apr 20, and Apr 20, 2020: workshop demo to 1001 level IT students at GGC, to spark interests in IT and STEM

Similar Projects

Technologies

CoDrone by RoboLink

• https://www.robolink.com/codrone/

Blockly for CoDrone

• Blockly is a code block editor made for the CoDrone
• https://www.robolink.com/rokit-brick-codrone/

Project Setup/Installation

1. Visit Blockly Site
2. Pair to CoDrone

Workshop Instructions

For instructions on how to complete our workshop please use the pdf file linked below.

Workshop Video

DroneRealityWorkshopWalkthrough.mp4

Advanced Workshop Instructions

For instructions on how to complete our advanced workshop please use the pdf file linked below.

Advanced Workshop Video

DroneReality_AdvancedWorkshopCompressed.mp4