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    Guideline For The First Lesson With Smars Kevin Thomas

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    This document provides guidance for a first lesson plan on robotics using SMARS robots. The 90 minute lesson will include a 45 minute theoretical presentation on the history and components of robotics and SMARS robots. This will be followed by a 45 minute practical session where students will assemble their SMARS robots in small groups. The lesson aims to teach students the basic functioning of robot components like batteries, motors and sensors. Assessment will involve a questionnaire during the theory and ensuring students can assemble and program their robot to move and stop as instructed. Future lessons will focus on increasing programming skills and allowing customization through 3D printing.

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    Guideline For The First Lesson With Smars Kevin Thomas

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    This document provides guidance for a first lesson plan on robotics using SMARS robots. The 90 minute lesson will include a 45 minute theoretical presentation on the history and components of robotics and SMARS robots. This will be followed by a 45 minute practical session where students will assemble their SMARS robots in small groups. The lesson aims to teach students the basic functioning of robot components like batteries, motors and sensors. Assessment will involve a questionnaire during the theory and ensuring students can assemble and program their robot to move and stop as instructed. Future lessons will focus on increasing programming skills and allowing customization through 3D printing.

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    This document provides guidance for a first lesson plan on robotics using SMARS robots. The 90 minute lesson will include a 45 minute theoretical presentation on the history and components of robotics and SMARS robots. This will be followed by a 45 minute practical session where students will assemble their SMARS robots in small groups. The lesson aims to teach students the basic functioning of robot components like batteries, motors and sensors. Assessment will involve a questionnaire during the theory and ensuring students can assemble and program their robot to move and stop as instructed. Future lessons will focus on increasing programming skills and allowing customization through 3D printing.

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    Guideline For The First Lesson With Smars Kevin Thomas

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    Jose Navarro
    This document provides guidance for a first lesson plan on robotics using SMARS robots. The 90 minute lesson will include a 45 minute theoretical presentation on the history and components of robotics and SMARS robots. This will be followed by a 45 minute practical session where students will assemble their SMARS robots in small groups. The lesson aims to teach students the basic functioning of robot components like batteries, motors and sensors. Assessment will involve a questionnaire during the theory and ensuring students can assemble and program their robot to move and stop as instructed. Future lessons will focus on increasing programming skills and allowing customization through 3D printing.

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    GUIDELINE

    FOR THE FIRST LESSON WITH


    SMARS
    Kevin Thomas
    Basics of robotics

    ROBOTICS LESSON
    WITH SMARS
    Lesson Plan


    Summary
    Overview: .......................................................................................................................................... 3
    Subjects: ........................................................................................................................................... 3
    Duration of Lesson .......................................................................................................................... 3
    Preparation ....................................................................................................................................... 3
    Lesson Plan and Activity ................................................................................................................ 4
    Rubric and Assessment ................................................................................................................. 4
    Notes, Tips, & Tricks for Printing ................................................................................................. 5

    Overview:
    In this lesson, students will learn the basics of robotics. During the theory, they will receive a short
    presentation about the history of robotics and then the class will analyze the functioning of the various
    components of the SMARS. Simplified operation of the battery, motors, microcontroller, motor driver,
    and main sensors will be explained.

    In the practical part, the class will be divided into small groups (2-3 students) that will assemble the
    robots.



    Subjects:

    Simplified operation of the battery, motors, microcontroller, motor driver, and main sensors will be
    explained. The student should be able to distinguish the main differences between input and output
    devices, understand the concept of electrical signal, voltage and current.

    Duration of Lesson
    The theoretical part will take place within 45 minutes, while practice will take another 45 minutes.

    Preparation

    Before starting the practical part, the teacher will have to make sure that the computers used have
    Arduino IDE and the required libraries already installed. For this lesson, students will simply have to be
    clear about the dangers of electricity (short circuits, polarity reversals, etc.).

    Arduino IDE: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/OldSoftwareReleases

    Adafruit Motor Shield: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-motor-shield/library-install

    Libraries Support: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Libraries

    Tutorials: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

    Electrical safety: https://goo.gl/XqYEGB


    Lesson Plan and Activity
    1. Distribute the documentation

    2. Begin the presentation (history of robotics, generality on the main peripherals of a robot, SMARS
    composition analysis and lab safety rules)

    3. Time for questions

    4. Short questionnaire to check that they understand (15 questions)

    5. Correcting the questionnaire

    6. Laboratory Start

    7. Assembly phase

    8. Check proper mounting / wiring

    9. Loading the Demo sketch

    10. Verifying robot works properly

    11. Challenge: Change the code to make the robot stop at the second black line.

    Rubric and Assessment

    At the end of the lesson, students must have assembled and programmed the robot. For students who
    have not already done so in class, the homework will be to make the robot stop at the second black
    line.


    Notes, Tips, & Tricks for Printing
    In the next lessons, the goal will aim to increase student skills in programming. Once you have reached
    a good level, you can switch to hardware enhancements through 3D printing. students will have to
    design peripherals (electromechanical or purely mechanical) in order to reach the goals set by the
    teacher (eg collecting some cubes and putting them in a black glue tape enclosure).

    At the end of the course, you can plan a robot-sumo tournament where each team of students will have
    to customize its robot with the aim of eliminating the opponent's robot .

    Look at the page: https://pinshape.com/users/208532-kevin-t#designs-tab-open from time to time to


    check for the presence of new peripherals for the robot.

    For the screwed version there will be a quadpod module (4-legs instead of the tracks) in the future. If
    you are interested, we recommend to print the version "Chassis_S.

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