[Thomas Weeks]

These robotics are those little vibrating bugs, right?

If interested, I have a more advanced actual coding program for the younger stockade boys that uses the robots that the older Battalion groups builds and codes, and uses more simple coding to run them through a Martian Terrain to Blast the Martian Armada about to attack earth:
Video here

Let me know if interested in turning this into something.

Tom Weeks

[Thomas Weeks]

Thanks Rex.. it’s slowly coming together for me.. 🙂

Although it looks like I don’t have access: (see screenshot)

Tom

[Thomas Weeks]

That’s awesome Tom..
We focus on outdoor cooking in troop# 5987 too.. Though we’ve found propane to be unreliable in cold weather.. and we try to teach the boys rustic survival skills (cooking with readily available wood) and have them pack all their essentials in go-bags.

First though, we spend a couple months on no-match fire craft, then knife safety, and then rustic cooking (on small wood-gasification cook stoves):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/coSSXyjMUGUc1Bzn9

In addition, we also do a popular father/son survival cooking in fire coals with “Hunters Stew” of hamburger, carrots, potato, onion, season salt and ketchup, in double wrapped foil in the coals:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z4ju6AiNwp2ztr289

Then on one of our recent AT camping trips, we had them do rustic survival cooking (they have to cook all their own food, using nothing but what they bring in their go-bags):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2wq64hTfzuoKxsCa7

(the pre-cooked bacon on a stick is a backup plan for those who didn’t bring everything they needed with them)

T.Weeks

[Thomas Weeks]

Done.. Here you go.. For Battalion aged boys, it’s a 3-4 week (4 week is ideal) robot build & code workshop that I’ve been teaching for like 10yrs now. The robot is built our of foam board and hot glue, and uses around $40-50 in parts from amazon (cheaper if you order in bulk from China)..
http://www.theweeks.org/tmp/PICS/LCBB/laser-bot2_800.png

and all my code and classroom handouts are Creative Commons (non-commercial open source):
https://github.com/LetsCodeBlacksburg/LCBB_arduino-collision-bot

I used the “build and code” portions of this project in place of the “computer badge” for our Battalion boys:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FS6tJpbDXUgaeJbRA

Though I don’t recommend the full build-and-code project for Jr high and younger. It’s all done in Arduino C++ and is too typo-prone to do with younger kids. However, if you have the older boys do the build and coding, then you can re-use the bots to run the “Martian Laser Bot” mission at the end and Stockade kids will eat that up. Pics of the younger “Mission to Mars” activity here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PRKhHwpxjY7Wxk5o8

Let me know if you have any questions.. I think the “build” project (4 weeks) would be a great “Robotics” badge addition for the Battalion boys.. and the “Martian Mission” would be a fun 1 week activity for Stockade.

T.Weeks

[Thomas Weeks]

Got it. that’s all it was.. Duhh..

Man.. is this a wordpress site? The WP host must be overloaded.. this site it REALLY slow at times!

[Thomas Weeks]

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