Introduction to Robotics – Part 2
Basic components of a mobile robot - chassis, sensors, brain (evive). What is the importance of programming in robotics?
Lessons for Grade: 7th
Voltage
What is electronics? What is an electronic circuit? What is voltage and how to measure it using evive?
Basics of Electronics – Current & Resistor
What is current? What is resistance? How to calculate the resistance of a resistor using color code?
Ohm’s Law and LED Basics
What is the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance and how to use it to light up an LED?
ABC of Analog Signal
What is an electrical signal? What is an analog signal? What are its characteristics? What is a potentiometer? How to visualize a signal on evive's mini oscilloscope?
ABC of Digital Signal
What is a digital signal? What are its characteristics? What is a switch? What are its types? How does it behave?
LED Circuit with Switch and Potentiometer
How to control the brightness and the state of a LED using a potentiometer and a switch?
Introduction to DC Motors
What are DC motors? What's inside a DC motor? How to control its direction and speed using evive?
DIY Turntable
How to make a DIY turntable using a DC motor?
Introduction to Servo Motors
What are servo motors and why are they important? How do they work?
Introduction to Sensors
What are the sensors? How are they categorized based on the output they provide? How to read digital and analog sensors using evive?
Touch Sensor – Conductor or Insulators?
What is a conductor? What is an insulator? How does evive's touch sensor work?
Introduction to Programming
What is a program? What are the different stages of writing a program? Introduction to PictoBlox software and its interface.
Backdrop, Costume, and Animations
What is a backdrop and a costume in PictoBlox? How to add them to a project to make cool animations?
Drawing Shapes in PictoBlox
How to draw lines in PictoBlox using the Pen extension? How to use the repeat block to make the script easy to debug?
Variables in PictoBlox
What is a variable and its purpose in a program? How to create a variable and manipulate its value in PictoBlox?
Arithmatic Operators
What is the operator? What are the different kinds of operators in PictoBlox? What are the arithmetic operators?
Conditional Statements in PictoBlox
How do the various conditional statements in PictoBlox - if, if-else, repeat, forever - function?
Logical Operators – Make a Calculator
How do the various logical operators in PictoBlox - AND, OR and NOT - function? What are the different uses of logical operators?
Digital Output – LED State Control
What is physical computing? How to interface evive with PictoBlox in Stage mode? How to control the digital state of a pin to turn an LED ON and OFF?
Analog Output – LED Brightness Control
How to control the brightness of an LED in PictoBlox using analog output?
Digital Input – Reading the State of Switches
What is digital input? How to read the state of a digital pin in PictoBlox? How to read the state (pressed or not) of evive tactile switch? How to read the state (up, down, or center) of evive's slide switch?
Analog Input – Reading Potentiometer
What is analog input? What is its range? How to read the analog state of pins in PictoBlox? How to read the state of evive's potentiometer?
evive’s Display – Hello World!
What are the specifications of evive's display? How to display and manipulate text on the display using the evive Display Extension?
Draw shapes on evive Display
How to draw different shapes on evive TFT Display like rectangle, triangle, circle, lines, and ellipse. Assignment - Making a flag.
Creating and Animating Shapes on evive Display
How to draw characters of different size and color on evive Display and animating them to make a game.
Beetle in the Maze
How to make games and animations in PictoBlox? How to read the sate of evive's navigation key?
The Hungry Shark Game
How to create clones in PictoBlox? How to detect contact between two sprites and perform actions accordingly?
Controlling a DC Motor using PictoBlox
How to program evive to control the direction and speed of a DC motor in PictoBlox?
Controlling a Servo Motor using PictoBlox
How to control the angle of a servo motor in PictoBlox?
Displaying Patterns on RGB LED Strip
What is an RGB LED strip? How to connect the RGB strip to evive and program it to display different patterns?
Introduction to Robotics – Part 1
What are robots? What are their characteristics? Classification of robots. Applications of robots in different fields. Basic components of a mobile robot - gripper, wheels, and actuators.
Smartphone Controlled Robot – Circuitry
How to control the movement of a two wheel mobile robot using evive?
Smartphone Controlled Robot – Assembly
How to assemble the basic structure of a mobile robot?
Smartphone Controlled Robot – Programming
How to make a custom block (function) in PictoBlox? How to control a robot using Dabble's Gamepad module?
Shy Robot – Programming Challenge
Students have to make a robot that runs away from the object in front of it - opposite to follow me robot.
Follow Me Robot – Programming
How to program the IR sensors of the robot to detect objects in front of it and follow them?
Follow Me Robot – Calibrating IR Sensors
What is an IR sensor? How does it work? How to connect it to evive and calibrate it to detect objects in close proximity?
Gripper
What is a gripper? How to use a gripper to automate tasks such as picking and placing objects?
Publishing Temperature and Humidity on Internet
Publish temperature and humidity data on ThingSpeak (Internet) using DHT11 sensor, evive, and ESP8266.
Smart Hand Band for Blind People
What is an ultrasonic sensor? How does it work? How to connect it to evive? How to get the distance of an object using the sensor in PictoBlox?
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