Introducing Finch Robot 2.0
Program the Finch in real time from our Arena!

Poster / Demo

Presented by:

Tom Lauwers

from BirdBrain Technologies LLC
<p>Tom is Founder and CEO at BirdBrain Technologies, located in Pittsburgh, PA. He seeks to design educational tools that catalyze positive making, coding, and engineering learning experiences in the classroom.</p> <p>Tom received a Ph.D in robotics in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon in part for his work designing the Finch Robot and Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Tom's research was founded on engaging all students, regardless of background, in robotics and engineering, and BirdBrain's products continu...

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Jeremy Millard

from DiamondFire

Lam Pham

The Finch Robot 2.0 is a new robot designed to support Computer Science education from kindergarten to college. Like the original Finch, Finch 2.0 can be programmed with Snap! on Windows, Macbooks, and Chromebooks. Unlike the original Finch, the new Finch connects via Bluetooth, and boasts many other hardware upgrades as well, including accurate movement, line sensing, multiple tail LEDs, front-facing distance sensor, line sensing, and a centrally mounted pen for drawing.

This demonstration will use Finch 2.0 along with our newly developed Remote Robots technology to allow anyone at the Snap! conference to program a Finch in NetsBlox, which is a Snap! derivative. We plan to create a “Finch arena” with several Finches that will be remotely programmable. The arena will be viewable via video conferencing software and will include a directional light source and obstacles to avoid. During the demo time, go to this page to program the Finch robots: www.birdbraintechnologies.com/remote-robots/finch-arena-robots/

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Date:
2020 July 31 - 12:00 PDT
Duration:
20 min
Room:
Zoom 4
Conference:
Snap!Con 2020
Language:
English
Type:
Poster / Demo
Track:
Posters and Demos
Difficulty:
N/A