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Sullivan Middle School - iCODE Program
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iCODE students have been working on several projects using a microcontroller called the Super Cricket. Students projects include the Electronic Blinkybugs, Holiday Module Curriculum and the Fortune Teller Project.
Blinkybugs are simple little electro-mechanical insects that respond to movement, wind, and vibrations by blinking their LED eyes. Despite their simplicity, they have a strange lifelike quality.
We created a holiday themed project to celebrate the season. As students worked on this project, they learned how to wire a circuit, solder and control LEDs and write their own “song” using note commands to form note pitch duration, which will play a certain musical note for some amount of time. Students use the microcontroller called the Super Cricket.
In our fortuneteller project we created a device similar to fortune telling machine, a love tester or magic 8-ball using the microcontroller called the Super Cricket. Although our devices are similar to these machines they are a bit simpler. They have four possible responses, with an LED for each that will light up when asked and randomly pick an answer.
Our next project we are currently working on is robot sumo, where two autonomous robots face off on a circular platform, in a high-tech version of the ancient Japanese sport of sumo wrestling.
iCODE Students
Watch this page for updates on the latest projects and activities by our iCODE Team.
In robot sumo, two autonomous robots face off on a circular platform, in a high-tech version of the ancient Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. Each robot tries to push its opponent from the platform without being pushed or accidentally straying out of bounds itself. The first robot to touch down outside the platform loses the round.
