Rita's Education Blog

                Today I worked with drone blocks. I was able to watch the videos and explore. Some things I did with the simulator drone was, have it fly up, flip, turn, and yaw. Overall, this is something fun for the young ones to experiment with and play with. As I was playing with it, I noticed the drone landing in the water. I now know I need to change the code for it to land on land and not water. To do that I would need to alter the codes. So, make the moving forward code couple more inches. Giving it the chance to land on land. It was unique watching the drone follow your codes.                    One lesson that I found cool was programming with music. This one is a little more challenging as you must sync the commands to selected music. This challenge is for ones who have patience. One tip that’s given is “use variations of the hover and speed b...

   In my class today we were working with Lego education. While working with Lego education. I was able to build my satellite. I went online and followed the sequence of instructions for my satellite. The satellite was built with Legos and needs 2AA batteries.  Once I finished building it, I was able to download the Lego app. In the app you need to connect your satellite to the bluetooth. This is my first experience with the Lego education, so I am still figuring out the codes, and what the codes do. My objective of this assignment is to get the kids to move the satellite at a certain speed and a certain way. For example, one goal would be getting the satellite to go around the "earth" 3 times clock wise. The next goal would be to get the satellite to go around "earth' 3 times clock wise, stop, and then repeat but counter clock wise. I will continue to play around with the Lego app to mess with codes and find out what else I can come up with before parents night at t...