PyBots! or how to learn to stop worrying and love coding
summary
Claims that physical computing makes programming tangible and inclusive and gives a positive intro to open source hardware. Uses Arduino-based PyBot controlled from Python over the Firmata protocol (pyFirmata, Raspberry Pi, USB/serial), cheap sensors and servos, PWM and LEDs. Workshops run with about 45 people locally and hundreds worldwide produce simple mobile robots held together with tape that actually move and sense obstacles, showing abstraction and object design map directly to hardware.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:04Where To Start with Learning to Code
- 7:12Turtle Graphics
- 8:15Constructionism
- 12:10Object-Oriented Programming
- 14:28How I Design My Robots
- 15:36Senses
- 16:01Proprioceptive Senses
- 17:00Actuators
- 19:24Arduino Nano
- 20:12Python Program
- 23:55An Rgb Led
- 27:15The Internet of Things
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