Learn to Program With the Sphero Robot
This course will teach you how to program and control the Sphero robot.
What you'll learn
This course introduces the Sphero, a ball-shaped robot that can be controlled and programmed via a smartphone or tablet. Students will create programs that allow the Sphero to move in certain ways and light up. Mathematical concepts will be introduced, like compass heading calculations, distance as a function of velocity over time, and percentages.
Table of contents
- Mixing Colors Using Red, Green, and Blue 3m
- Colors Are Numbers 4m
- Converting Between Different Numbering Systems 4m
- Demonstrations of Using Windows Calculator to Convert Numbers 4m
- Converting Numbers Using Pencil and Paper 3m
- Converting Larger Numbers 3m
- Using Hexadecimal Color Codes to Set RGB Values 4m
- Specifying RGB Values in Our Macro 3m
- Final Exercise and Summary 2m
About the author
Robert began his IT career programming the Commodore 64, which his parents bought for him when he was in high school. He earned an electrical engineering degree via an ROTC scholarship, then served as a US Army Communication Officer. When his Army career ended, he spent time designing and building custom electrical devices, Novell network support, network engineering, Windows and Linux system administration, and computer security. He finally settled on software development, specializing in the... more