Starting with some example code, design and build a robot game.
As a warm-up everyone was provided with a sheet containing basic code for three different types of game and had to see if they could work out what the code was for. It turned out these were a cookie clicker game, a reaction timer, and bop-it / simon says style of game.
The next task was to brainstorm some ways of improving or building on the existing code, and then turn one of those into a game.
Build a robot that can drive up to a gap, deploy a bridge, and then use the bridge to cross the gap. Each team was limited to a maximum of two large yellow plates. Before Read more…
This week’s challenge required teams to solve a problem faced by a character in a fairy tale or fable. For example:
This week’s challenge was to make a robot react to the inputs from two different sensors. Up until this week, we’ve been randomising the groups. This week, however, participants had the option of choosing their Read more…