ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
The idea is to create an "mBot pet" which will provide a response to different human reactions and then collect information about them.
Students will code an mBot-Pet in order to use it as a data collection system. By testing different sensors, they will study the most common reactions a human being has towards a pet (such as to play with it, caress it, talk nicely or yell). The mBot-Pet will have a specific response to any of these human reactions.
When the robot has a certain number of reactions stored, the program will stop and the data collected will be showed on the screen. This information will be the starting point for creating a statistics study in which students will be able to put in practise some math’s concepts (barcode elaboration, mean, median, mode, ratio, proportions…).
In the second version of this activity, consits of interact with a mBot disguised as a baby.
This second version consists mainly of two sections.
- In the first part, a code has been developed in which the user can personalize the emotions of the baby, since through the remote control or through the Me 4 Button Actuator, by pressing a button the baby will show an emotion, and by touching another button, the baby will change the expression again. In this way, for example, small theaters can be made to call attention to the smallest people.
- The second section is that the baby will recognize 3 states, when someone or something approaches (ultrasonic sensor), if there is too much light (light sensor) and there is too much sound (sound sensor). When the baby recognizes this action, it will emit both an acoustic and luminous signal.
