Cardbotics! Beyond Cardboard Engineering: Simple Machines, Smart Robotics

Purpose & objective

This presentation is designed to give attendees direct, hands-on experience with coding and making. More importantly, it allows attendees to learn about making and coding simultaneously. This synergy of skills makes the Hummingbird Bit unique compared to other CS tools. Attendees will also be able to work with Makedo tools for cutting and connecting cardboard. Makedo makes cardboard construction easier and much safer for younger students.

Attendees will work collaboratively to create a castle using Makedo tools and coding robotics characters with Hummingbird Bits.

Outline

This poster session is designed to be drop-in and highly interactive. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in any or all components.

Community Build - Using Makedo tools and cardboard, attendees will participate in a community build of a castle and an alligator.

Character Coding - Attendees will use Hummingbird Bits to code robotic castle characters, including pre-cut dragons.

Unit Share - Attendees will have access to a unit plan sharing how teachers can replicate this activity in a standards-aligned way in ELA and Social Studies classrooms.

Supporting research

Educational Robotics and Robot Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue - Frontiers in Robotics and AI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.662030/full

A list of research articles from Birdbrain Technologies about the development of the Hummingbird Bit: https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/about-us/research/