SKILLS 2 – Engineer equipment and control codes This SKILL engages you in engineering equipment and control codes for an autonomous robot, sent from the Space Station, to successfully complete each of the missions. Return to main post Your Task Tick off each mission as you design and create attachments, code and successfully practice each […]
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Vacuum cleaner attachments are essential for increasing efficiency, versatility, and precision, allowing a single machine to tackle varied surfaces and hard-to-reach areas. They eliminate the need for multiple cleaning devices, reduce cleaning time by up to half, and prevent injury by enabling the cleaning of high or tight spaces without strain. So, with that in mind,
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Creating your team patch This SKILL engages you in designing a space mission patch to understand symbolism, mission planning, and teamwork, inspired by NASA’s crew patch design process. You will define a mission goal, select symbolic elements/colours, and create a visual patch to represent your space adventure Return to main post What is a team
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Mission Briefing Goal: To complete as many successful missions as possible before launching the rocket to the Mars Outpost. Your Task – to carry out successful missions and establish the Mars Outpost. Tick off each mission as you design and create attachments, code and successfully execute each mission.Show the Mission Commander your attempt.Take photos of
Establish the Outpost The robot completes a number of missions in a sequence, then navigates to the launch site and presses the launch button. The Rocket launches and when it reaches the Mars Outpost, it activates it. Return to Year 9 Robotics
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Each time the car collides with an instance of the array of obstacles we remove that instance from the array. At the same time we want to add one to the score variable In order to do that we need to pass the score variable to the Coll function and return the score at the end of
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Pygame has a Rect function we can use to determine if two objects collide. We need to create a Rect for each instanace of our class and we need to create a Rect for the car. but first We are going to use the Rect function to determine the height and width of our images. Near the
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Now we want to add a vector for movement. STEP ONE: MODIFYING THE INIT FUNCTION Inside our class initialisation function ( __init__) we can create a vector for movement add the following to the __init__ function # Create a random speed vector.movespeed = random.randint(1, 10)directionx = random.random()*movespeed * random.choice((-1, 1))directiony = random.random()*movespeed * random.choice((-1, 1))self.vector
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In order to assign different movement directions to different instances of our class we need to use Vectors. The best way to use Vectors is to also use a Position as a vector instead of x and y values. for example instead ofx=220, y = 100 we useposition(220,100) STEP ONE: MODIFY OUR INIT FUNCTION Combine
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STEP ONE: ADDING A MOVE FUNCTION TO OUR CLASS Inside our class declaration we need to define a new function called movedef move(self): and inside that function we need to modify the x and/or y values of the class. Move Left: decrease the x valueself.x -= 1 Move Down: increase the y valueself.y += 1
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