robots – Page 34 – Beep & Pixel

There’s one bug hiding in this program. Programmers call fixing mistakes debugging. Time to be a bug detective!

There’s one bug hiding in this program. Programmers call fixing mistakes debugging. Time to be a bug detective!

Pixel checked Beep’s program and spotted a mistake straight away. Can you spot it too?

Uh oh! Beep followed the program exactly, just like computers do, and it didn’t work. Can you find the bug?

Program a friend across a floor grid with Forward, Turn Left and Turn Right cards.

Give super-exact instructions to a friend who acts like a robot, and discover what an algorithm is.

Invent a robot of your own, choose its sensors and actions, and write its rules as a flowchart.

Meet robot vacuums, factory arms and a Mars rover, and find out why a robot far from home must make…

Plan routes for Beep with forward, left and right commands, then find and fix a bug in a program that…

Teach a robot to spot obstacles with a distance sensor and steer around them, then test the rule in Python.

See how a robot with two light sensors can follow a dark line using four simple rules, then test the…

Find out how robots roll, steer and turn on the spot using two wheels, and how gears make things slower…