Key Focus 1 - Getting Started With Ino-Bot - TTS InO-Bot Blockly Teachers Manual

Key Focus 1 – Getting started with InO-Bot
InO-Bot is full of inputs and outputs but it is best to start as simply as possible. Begin
with outputs and get children to explore what can be done with the 8 RGB LED lights
on top.
Use the 'RGB light' blocks and 'wait for' blocks to
light one LED different colours. Investigate what
happens if the 'wait for' time is changed or
removed.
The LEDs are numbered 1 to 8 starting at the back right (InO-Bot facing away from
you). Children could explore changing the LED number and work out which LED is
which.
Introducing the concept of repetition will allow
this activity to be developed. Children can explore
lighting the LEDs in different orders to create
alternative patterns. The example (right) could be
seen as an emergency vehicle light pattern.
Having explored different patterns, the next step
could be to mimic something real world. Traffic
lights are a great option. Ask children to write a
program that lights LEDs 1, 2 and 3 as if they were
traffic lights.
It helps to have an image of the sequence traffic
lights cycle through. This will allow children to plan
their program before they start work in Blockly.
.
An example program for traffic lights is shown
above.
Note: There will be a number of ways to achieve the same result.