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Artificial Intelligence Educator Resources

These tutorials include artificial intelligence chatbots as a tool for working with micro:bit Python scripts, cyber:bot applications, and cybersecurity topics.

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Cybersecurity with Python and micro:bit Resources

These tutorials with Python and micro:bit add an often-overlooked physical computing dimension to cybersecurity programs.

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What’s a Microcontroller with Python and micro:bit Resources

What’s a Microcontroller with Python and micro:bit is a series of web lessons designed to get anyone — from the casual maker to pre-engineering student — started with building circuits and designing their own micro:bit-based inventions.

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cyber:bot Resources

The cyber:bot robot adds a tangible hardware dimension to Python-focused computer science, CTE and cybersecurity programs. This robot puts the BBC micro:bit module on the Parallax small robot form factor that's a proven STEM success in classrooms from middle school into college, leveraging the add-ons available for this chassis.

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ActivityBot Resources

The ActivityBot 360° Robot is our most capable and versatile small robot. Perfect for classrooms in middle school level and above, this robot can be programmed with the visual BlocklyProp programming tool or in text-based C-language. With its block-based approach to program building, BlocklyProp is a perfect entry point for students who are new to programming, electronics, and robotics, or who may struggle with traditional text-based programming.

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Propeller Resources

This section contains downloads and resources for educators teaching with the Propeller microcontroller or any of its stand-alone boards (excluding ELEV-8 ... Read more

Scribbler 3 Resources

The Scribbler 3 (S3) the perfect place for students and teachers to begin their STEM/STEAM journey.  Programming, robotics, and even ... Read more

Shield-Bot Educator Resources

The BOE Shield for Arduino Robot (a.k.a Shield-Bot) allows the tried-and-true Boe-Bot robotics platform to be powered by an Arduino. Although the internet is full of ideas and projects for the Arduino, there are few good resources for getting started and learning the core skills necessary to be proficient with the Arduino as a microcontroller. By adapting our Boe-Bot materials to the Arduino microcontroller, we have created a student-friendly, yet thorough introduction for students and teachers who want to use the Arduino and are new to programming, electronics, and robotics.

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What’s a Microcontroller? Educator Resources (BASIC Stamp)

The BASIC Stamp Microcontroller is one of the most user-friendly microcontrollers available.  The BASIC Stamp is programmed using PBASIC – arguably ... Read more

Robotics for the Boe-Bot Educator Resources

The Boe-Bot Robot is programmed using PBASIC - arguably the easiest text-based language for beginners to learn. Ideal for students who are new to programming, electronics, and robotics, the Boe-Bot is a time-tested platform, making it one of the best places for students to begin learning. The complete Robotics with the Boe-Bot learning system includes the educator resources, hardware, software, and textbooks.

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Contests

Boe-Logistics

This Boe-Bot style robot challenge consists of distributing the colored balls into the different scoring zones of the field. Each ball must be taken into a matching color zone.

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ELEV-8 Air Race

This competition is a timed aerial race where the racing track is set up in 3 dimensions. It is open to any fixed multi-rotor aircraft, including the ELEV-8 Quadcopter.

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Race of Scribblers

This challenge consists of a race between two S2 (Scribbler) robots, each in their own track separated by a wall, with a cross-over point. The S2 robots can navigate by detecting the walls or following a black line on the tracks.

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SumoBot Wrestling

This challenge consists of each SumoBot robot seeking out the opponent robot and pushing it out of the Sumo Ring (thereby earning a Yuko point), and to avoid being pushed out of the Sumo Ring itself. A game for the SumoBot Competition Kit and Applied Robotics with the SumoBot.

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