R16-U4 · usually age 16 · Autonomy Innovators
Sort for a Purpose
Can our system improve a real workflow?
Outline: sessions not yet written
Build: Camera-based sorting robot
- Sense
- Decide
- Act
- Test and debug
Who it is for
Age is a starting point, never a limit. A learner who can show what this unit starts from can begin here at any age.
- How they learn
- By designing systems in C++ or Python, using simulation as preparation, and proving behaviour with measured trials.
- The adult's role
- An adult reviews safety, tools and higher-risk subsystems.
- Session
- 90–120 minutes
- Hardware
- Arduino, Raspberry Pi Pico, ESP32 or a Raspberry Pi computer. Many of these boards are 3.3 V: use level shifting for 5 V parts. Advance only after driver and power competency.
Starts from
Latency
Measure and budget the delay from sensing to acting.
ML literacy
Train and test a simple classifier, and find where it fails.
Built in R16-U3 Machine Learning Literacy
Automation
Automate a repeated physical task and measure its reliability.
Built in R15-U4 Pick and Place
Original design
Design an original variation for a real need and justify it.
Built in R12-U4 Solve a Local Problem
Builds, and what it is the input for
Real-world value
Show with evidence that a robot improves a real workflow.
Input for R17-U4 Community Robotics Capstone
In the studio today
No studio lab or activity for this unit yet.
Outline: sessions not yet written
This unit is an outline: a title, a question and an intended prototype. Its sessions, materials and adult guide are not written yet.
- Ideas
- vision · reliability · responsible use
- Evidence of learning
- Demonstrate classification, actuation and test evidence.