DroneBlocks Lab

 

1d: Develop resilience and perseverance when approaching CS and CT learning experiences, build comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems, and see failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate.

3b: Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution and project management.

Today in class, we explored DroneBlocks and programmed a drone to do different things. We did have a few problems starting out because the drone would not connect to the app. After a bit of coding, we managed to get Tello (the drone) to do some flips while moving around. After a bit of programming, Tello would not follow the code and would just hover a bit before landing. We did try again and again to get it to do more, but Tello wouldn't do more.

A classmate did some research and found that Tello might not be responding because of the battery overheating. Considering that the battery had become really hot, we determined that the the battery overheating was the reason for Tello to stop responding. We plan to keep that in mind when using Tello again to do more things with coding.

In this video, Tello was programmed to do some flips.

Code used to make Tello flip.

Using Tello was quite the learning experience although we ran into some issues. It was an opportunity to improve for when we use Tello again. I also did my part in being a team member with using Tello. Aleksandra programmed Tello (she had the code), Jasmine was giving Alexsandra codes to try out, and Kelly helped out in any way she could including charging the drone as we figured out how to connect it to DroneBlocks.

When Tello was just hovering and not following the code.