Controlling a DC Motor using PictoBlox
Lesson Details
How to program evive to control the direction and speed of a DC motor in PictoBlox?
Activities:
- Creating a script to control the speed and direction of a DC motor using evive's potentiometer slide switch respectively.
Curriculum: Physical Computing for Kids – Level 1
Classroom Bundle Used: STEM Classroom Bundle, STEM Mini Classroom Bundle
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Lesson Overview
Students will learn the following things:
- What is a DC motor?
- How to connect a DC motor to evive?
- DC motor controlling blocks in PictoBlox and the different parameters to control a motor.
- Activity 1: Setting the direction and speed of the motor input by the user.
- Activity 2: Controlling the DC motor using a potentiometer and a slide switch.
Material Required
1 set of the following material per group of 3-5 students:
| Component | Image | Quantity | Available in Bundle |
|---|---|---|---|
| evive |  | 1 | |
| Dual Shaft BO Motor |  | 1 |
Lesson Outline
DC Motor - 10 minutes
- What is a DC motor?
- How to connect a DC motor to evive?
Actuator Extension in PictoBlox - 15 minutes
- How to control DC motor?
- How to control the speed of DC motor?
- Motor control blocks in Actuators extension:
- Run motor () in direction () with speed () % block
- () motor () block
Activity 1 - 15 minutes
- Make a PictoBlox script to set the direction and speed of the motor which is input by the user.
Activity 2 - 20 minutes
- Make a PictoBlox script to control the DC motor using evive’s potentiometer 1 and evive’s slide switch 1.
