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- Page 1 PICOBOTZ PICOBOTZ iBOTZ Ltd 2004 © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 2 If you forget to turn off the Picobotz, it will beep once a minute. There is a "Reminder" timer which is reset whenever the motors are turned on or off, whenever the PC sends a command to the Picobotz, whenever the Picobotz beeps and whenever the ResetTimeout instruction is executed (see below).
- Page 3 F9 key. (Leave the cable plugged in.) The program in the Picobotz will start to run. The robot will alternately spin left and right. Press the stop button or switch the robot off then back on again (with the cable still plugged in) and you are ready for Activity 2.
- Page 4 Click the Download button to download the program into the robot. Switch the robot off, unplug the cable and switch the robot on again. The program in the Picobotz will start to run and the robot will execute the instructions that you have programmed. The program is executed repeatedly.
- Page 5 Click the Run button; the editor will ask you "The file has been modified. Download to Picbotz?". Click Yes. The program in the Picobotz will start to run. The robot will play the sounds you selected. Switch the robot off make sure the cable is plugged-in and switch the robot on again. You are ready for Activity 4.
- Page 6 Click the Download button to download the program into the robot. Switch the robot off, unplug the cable and switch the robot on again. The program in the Picobotz will be executed repeatedly. Place the robot on a black line and check that it follows the line.
- Page 7 Sound Chart by vertical red lines. Click and drag the mouse over the bar or over the Sound Chart to set the "short" noise length limit. A Picobotz program can test whether a sound has occurred with an If instruction: If Short Noise then <instructions>...
- Page 8 Move the program cursor to the 'End' line and click the Spin Right button. The program should now look like this: © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 9 Switch the robot off plug the cable in and switch the robot on again. You are ready for Activity 6. © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 10 In all the programs you've written so far, the motors have been switched on for a fixed time and then switched off. The robot then executes the next instruction of the program. © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 11 Delay instructions after the Reverse and Reverse Right instructions. Switch the robot off plug the cable in and switch the robot on again. You are ready for Activity 8. © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 12 The While loop is executed as long as the condition "NOT Light > Prev" is true. If "NOT Light > Prev" is never true then the loop is never executed. Activity 9: Repeat Loops © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 13 Repeat 2 times <instructions> Repeat 2 times <instructions> <instructions> Is illegal - the Repeat-End blocks are nested four deep. But this: © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 14 In this Activity, you will learn about Events: a different way of reacting to sensors. Click the Event button to select the Event Programming page: © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 15 Click the Run button. The highlight in the editor moves to show which instruction is being executed. If you clap your © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 16 © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
- Page 17 Remember, only Events to the right of the current Event can be triggered. The same rules apply to the 'Long Noise' Event. © iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited.2004. No part of this manual may be reproduced with express permission of iBOTZ (Ireland) Limited...
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