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7 notes so far, oldest first. New notes are added through the school year.
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Choosing a first classroom robot kit
Micro:bit buggies, LEGO Education sets or Arduino boards? What matters at each Year level, and how to choose without wasting the budget.
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Starting a school robotics club
Team sizes, roles, a ten-week term plan, and the unglamorous parts that keep a club running: storage, batteries and handover.
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How line-following robots work
Light sensors, thresholds, and the step from wobbly on/off steering to smooth proportional control, with a diagram and sample code.
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How robot soccer works, in general
Infrared balls, compass sensors, attackers and goalies: the general ideas behind school robot soccer, without any one competition's rules.
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Robots on stage: dance and theatre projects
Choreography by timing, servos that wave and nod, and how to combine art, music and code into a robot performance.
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From block coding to text coding
When students should move from Scratch or MakeCode blocks to Python, how to make the switch less painful, and what changes for robots.
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Robotics project ideas for home
Low-cost builds for the kitchen table, from a self-driving toy car to helper robots and nature-inspired designs.