Robot Exercises

There are up to 21 exercises here that accompany your Smorphi mini and Smorphi ² kits. For owners of a Smorphi, you can safely and easily follow the exercises up til exercise 7. From exercise 8 onwards, there may be some tasks you will not be able to complete due to the required sensors or parts not being included in your kit. Do note that Smorphi mini follows the exercises up til exercise 9.

List of Robot exercises:

Exercise 1 - Putting your robot together

Assemble your robot and link your robot to its control app for a quick start.

Exercise 2 - Setting up your Smorphi for coding

Learn about the various coding software and how to set them up which you will need to customise your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² to perform various tasks.

Exercise 3 - Documentation

Look through and understand how to read coding documentation, and explore the various functions provided.

Exercise 4 - Introduction to Blockly

Learn about Blockly and how to set up which you will need to customise your Smorphi to perform various tasks.

Exercise 5 - Basic Blockly coding

Learn basic blockly coding structures, like variables, loops and conditionals.

Exercise 6 - Basic C++ / Arduino coding

Learn basic Arduino coding structures, like variables, loops and conditionals.

Exercise 7 - Temperature sensor (Blockly)

Set up and use Blockly to control your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² kit's temperature sensor for various activities and purposes

Exercise 8 - Temperature sensor (C++ / Arduino)

Set up and use C++ code to control your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² kit's temperature sensor for various activities and purposes

Exercise 9 - Sound sensor (Blockly)

Set up and use Blockly to control your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² kit's sound sensors for various activities and purposes

Exercise 10 - Sound sensor (C++ / Arduino)

Set up and use C++ code to control your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² kit's sound sensors for various activities and purposes

Exercise 11 - Infrared (IR) for obstacle detection (Blockly)

Set up and use Blockly to control your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² kit's IR sensors for various obstacle-detection purposes

Exercise 12 - Infrared (IR) for obstacle detection (C++ / Arduino)

Set up and use C++ to control your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² kit's IR sensors for various obstacle-detection purposes

Exercise 13 - Simple line following using 2 IR sensors

Code your Smorphi ² to follow a line on the ground utilising 2 IR sensors

Exercise 14 - Line following and obstacle detection combine

Challenge yourself by implementing line following with obstacle detection at the same time using just IR sensors

Exercise 15 - Pixycam

Introducing the Pixycam usage and set up

Exercise 16 - Integrate Pixycam onto robot using ICSP protocol (Recommended Methodology)

Connecting Pixycam to your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² as a sensor

Exercise 17 - Integrate Pixycam onto robot using I2C protocol

Connecting Pixycam to your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² as a sensor

Exercise 18 - Simple maze navigation

Code your Smorphi mini / Smorphi ² to navigate through a simple maze

Exercise 19 - Maze with shape change

Code your Smorphi ² to navigate through a slightly more complicated maze with varying widths that require shape change

Exercise 20 - Customise your app to control Smorphi

Make your own app that you can use to control Smorphi

Exercise 21 - Make your own library

Code exploration exercise to understand the background functions in depth