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We continued learning the sensors and actuators for a Sumo Robot, this time we put up DC Motors + Motor Driver Module + IR Sensor Modules together, so it made a small system fun to test for motion reactions based on detections. The projects were challenging, and required mixed tasks of hardware setup, software programming, and even some physical craft work like soldering, the students were so engaged in the learning!
The small system we built in the class, based on PJ032: Use IR Modules to Trigger Reacting Motions
The Motor Driver boards made with some task for students to solder by themselves
A young student was learning how to solder the pin headers
A student's work for motor control based on the IR sensor detections
Another student tried using "Class" in C++ for to solve the problem, even though "Class" is out-of-scope in the learning content so far