Mentor Hours 8

Today I got to work with the Boe-Bot! The Boe-Bot is a basic robot kits that a majority of beginners in robotics first work with to get them started. Here is a fully constructed Boe-Bot that my mentor already had on display in his workshop:

I'll get to construct my own Boe-Bot from scratch later on once I receive my kit.

Since I don't have my own kit yet, I started working with the software that comes with the Boe-Bot. The book that came with the Boe-Bot is actually quite thick, but has really simple instructions and explanations that made it easy to learn the coding. The book wasn't very intimidating once I actually started reading it. I learned how to program the bot to do certain things such as blink its LEDs or turn only one wheel at a time. I was introduced to the BASIC coding language that the Boe-Bot uses to receive instructions. I was able to learn different functions such as "DEBUG", "PAUSE", "LOOP", "DEC", "CR", "PULSOUT", and "DO". I think this was the coolest thing I've done so far. It was awesome just typing in a few lines into a computer and pressing F9 to make the robot do what I've told it to do. I even got the Boe-Bot to do math! It was really fun getting to program a robot for the first time.

Hours Earned: 2 hours

Total Hours: 16 hours