INVICTA ROBOTICS
Course Agenda
On this page, I will be showing you what we are going to do in the class. There are certain goals that I want to accomplish to make sure that there is some progress that is definitely going to happen.
1
Introduction to Vex
This includes teaching about different vex parts, basics about robot functionality, basic principles of physics, gear ratio, and drive mechanism. These baseline rules are very important for the student to get started with robotics.
2
Building hero robots
A hero robot is a robot that comes with an instruction manual to build. To learn how each part works with the other, follow instructions students need to start out with a basic robot and then gradually move to more complex robots.
3
Programming the controller
When the hero bots are built, you would want to test them out. So what we do is show them how to code the robot so you can drive it with a controller. This way, if there are any problems with the robot, moving it around and testing it out might be the best option. It also gives the student confidence that they have actually built a working robot.
4
Autonomous Programming
Autonomous programming is similar to block coding with the controller but instead, on the student's third robot, we will be learning how to code the robot to move and do the tasks that we programmed it to do.
5
Getting ready for the VEX challenges
After the third robot, we will build custom robots to complete the challenge at hand. They will need to think outside of the box to solve the problem that is on hand. On every step, they will have to test it and learn from the problems.