Regarding the needs of robotics technology, Pudak Scientific provide an advanced technology MATRIX FORMULA FLOWCODE Robot.
FORMULA robot is a low cost, all-inclusive solution robot vehicle which is used to teach robotics, control, programming as the technology education curriculum of the junior and senior high school.
FORMULA robots can be used as platform for robotics competition events, which is effective to motivate students to learn more about electronics and technology in just few hours.
FORMULA robot is compatible with Micromouse competition standards.
Hardware
Robot vehicle is based on plastic moulded chassis with two wheels, gearboxes, and motors and is powered by AA batteries. The circuit board connects directly to a PC using USB port, and provides a high specification PIC18F4455 controller with many features including 2 user switches, 8 LEDs, sound level sensor, light sensor, buzzer, motor controller (Pulse Width Modulation), line follower sensors and distance sensors.
Software
The robot is supplied with simple version FLOWCODE software. Students develop the program, simulate its functionality on-screen and then click on a button to download the program to the robot. Robot can also be programmed with C and Assembler.
Curriculum and Learning Objective
A set of teacher’s notes is available that describes a sequence of learning opportunities from getting an initial output through to line following and maze solving. |
