ProCodeCG Kids Coding Camp End 2018 – Robotics – Day #1

Day #1 of Robotics Coding Camp 😉

The task for today 😉

Kresna

blinking LED

RGB LED

button with LED

multi-function button

buzzer

ultrasonic sensor

micro servo

LCD I2C

potentiometer

temperature and humidity sensor

Aidia

LED

RGB LED

Button and LED

Aidia’s super cute toolbox 😀

 

Testing LCD

Modifying the text

Huge achievement today!

Galih

LED

Button and LED

Multi function button

Buzzer

LCD

Micro servo

Potensiometer

Ultrasonic sensor

The teacher did some soldering 😀 But not yet teaching the kids 😉

There is some “Coding Dad” session too 😀

Kresna helped Galih to finish the last task today: temperature and humidity sensor 😉

we’re going to design and layout the components tomorrow 😉

 

*Photos and videos are also available here

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ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 9 Dec 2017

This is what our Saturdays made of 🙂

Captains preparing the class 🙂 ProCodeCG doesn’t hire programmers. We raise them 🙂

These are (from left to right): Ain (going to start his first Captain duty on coding camp next week), Capt. Azriel, Tiga (Ain’s little brother) and Capt. Awa 🙂

Thanks so much for preparing the class 🙂 :*

Capt. Awa is in the middle of his project: building a radar system for navigation 🙂

He was going to disassemble an AroX robot and took some parts of it for his project

We’re going to use ultrasonic sensors and servo

And some codes, of course

Awa’s workplace 😀

After watching some tutorials, we decided to disassembly a microservo and modify it to be able to rotate 360 degrees continously

We had to cut something out of these gears

and put them altogether again

Well, this requires lots of patience and hard work 😉

Ozan was still investigating why the ultrasonic counter wouldn’t work with LCD

We’ve tried many configurations and codes

Even changed the LCD because this one wouldn’t turn on

There are days when things are so frustrating but we will keep working on it, yes Ozan? 😀

Even if we have to start all over again from the beginning 😀

The class

And a little coding mom reunion 🙂

It was such a perfect Saturday 🙂 Can’t wait to continue our research again next Saturday 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

ProCodeCG Sensor Data Acquisition Training – 11 Sept 2017

Today we trained lecturers for Politeknik Negeri Pontianak on how to do data acquisition from current sensors 🙂

Class preparation

We split the team into two: hardware and software. The hardware team started to assemble the components

while the software team installing the application and libraries

ESPectro basic testing: blink

and neopixel animation

Then we’re ready to connect ESPectro to the circuit and sensor

We compared the circuit with the one that has been tested and verified

Still didn’t work

It took lots of retrying, switching components and we tried every solution possible and think of every source of errors

still didn’t work

We just kept trying

and after we changed the resistors with metal film ones, it worked! 😀

Current reading when the switch is on

when off

when on and off again

The effort was worth it 🙂 We finally finished the training and ready to collect data for further research and analysis 🙂

ProCodeCG Kids Coding Exhibition 2017 – 17 Aug 2017

This is how ProCodeCG celebrate Indonesia Independence Day 😉 We have this annual event to show the world the work of ProCodeCG Kids 🙂 They will present what they have learned to their parents and public audiences 🙂

This event is supported by Grapari Telkomsel Digilife Dago and powered by Telkomsel 🙂

Venue preparation

Today we have 12 kids presenting their works, and the first presentation is by Capt. Moch. Malik Putra Kurniawan (12 yo) – “Measure Temperature Humidity with Mobile IoT”

The second presentation is by Nazneen Nur Shadrina Sugiarto (8,5 yo) – “LifeCycle Apps with Thunkable”

The 3rd presentation is by Bullit “Awa” Zulfiqar (8,5 yo) – “Cat Feeder”

The 4th presentation: M. Rezandra Rizky Irianto (14 yo) – “Blender 3D Modelling”

The 5th presentation: Jundy Valliant Alkautsar (13 yo) – “Minecraft Modding”

The 6th presentation: Faris Hafizhan Hakim (12 yo) – “Prayer Time Reminder App in Java”

The 7th presentation: Clarence Soetarman (14 yo) – “Sorting Algorithm Visualization with ESPectro”

The 8th presentation: Tyogo Utomo (13 yo) – “ProCodeCG Attendance List App in Java”

The 9th presentation: Sulthan Zaky Nurrochman (9 yo) – “Archery Website with WordPress”

The 10th presentation: Abdillah Muhammad Halim (13 yo) – Ultrasonic Gesture Sensor

The 11th presentation: M. Iqbal Fauzan (13 yo) – “Ultrasonic Counter”

The 12th presentation: Serenada Cinta Sunindyo (11 yo) – “Automatic Traffic Light Pedestrian Button”

The last but not least: a presentation demo by ProCodeCG Parent Pak Slamet Puji Santuso = Magic Mirror 😉

 

And we were so honored to be visited by guests from SMP IDN Madinatul Ilmi – Jonggol Bogor 🙂

The presenters:

The audience:

 

Us! 😉

Our captains in duty:

KIds play together after the event 😉

Interviewing session:

Captains performs Dhuhr Prayer 🙂

The Moms 😉

See you again next year 😉

 

 

 

ProCodeCG – Private Training – Data Acquisition with ESPectro – Day #1 – 15 May 2017

Today we had a training on gathering data from sensors using DHT11 and MLX90614 using ESPectro development board 🙂

Setting up before the class started

We used two different computers to make sure we can do lots of things simultaneously 🙂

we also have to make sure we have reliable internet connection and a toolbox full of anything we might need 😉

we tested MLX90614 with Arduino

and it worked. Next we will use ESPectro to be able to send the data via cloud 🙂

We’re going to use the sensors to measure battery temperature

We’re going to use multiple sensors to measure multiple batteries, so we’ve got lots of things to do, and will continue the training on Wednesday 🙂

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #104 – BR – Acer CloudProfessor

ProCodeCG is where we can learn the most recent technology 🙂 Today Professor BR taught us a bit about Acer CloudProfessor 🙂

Acer CloudProfessor (black little box) connected to a powerback (white, bigger box), surrounded with devboards, connectors, and sensors.

One of our cutest audience 🙂

The audience (a few more came later)

Yaaay, more moms and kids 🙂

The ide of CloudProfessor inspired by MicroProfessor – MPF-01

Acer CloudProfessor connected to RGB LED to be controlled remotely via a smartphone

The code

Lots of things can be done with different sensors

Several sensors connected to an Arduino Leonardo with a stack-up I2C connectors

Working easily 🙂

A brilliant example: CPF Ramen Cooler 😀 It will detect the temperature of a bowl of ramen and activate fan to cool it off 😀

Bluetooth technlogy

A demo of compiling and running the code

Very few people know about this latest technology, and those attending this short lecture today will surely a few steps ahead 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino Programming – 18 March 2017

Yesterday Muhammad and his little brother Hasan (those two sitting on the back) helped us to set up the class 🙂 Thanks so much 🙂

We learned to display sensor readings to LCD 🙂 We started with LDR (Light Dependent Resistor)

Raul was a bit confused about the schematic because the LCD and the sensor were in different picture

but he finally figured it out 🙂

Raul finished the display of ultrasonic sensor reading too, but didn’t have time to continue on temperature and humidity sensor because he had to start his Java Programming lesson 🙂

Koosha’s comfort corner 🙂 (he didn’t want to be in a pic, he left each time we took picture :D)

Koosha finished the LDR and was tinkering with it but not yet finished the other sensors because there was problem with the library. It’s ok we’ll fix it next week 😉

Ren 🙂

and his serious look 🙂

Ren finished LDR reading to LCD and ultrasonic reading to LCD. Only on left to try: temperature and humidity sensor 🙂

Nafis had to catch up with the class

and he got help from Dad 😀

and finally got it work 😉

LDR NAFIS 😉

Muhammad had to catch up with the class too so he started with making sure that the LCD works

And then connect it to LDR 🙂 Next week he’ll catch up with ultrasonic sensor and temperature & humidity sensor 🙂

Ozan had successfully finished the task too 🙂

We had to change the LDR several times until we found the one with correct readings 🙂 And it finally showing the correct values 🙂

Rafi and Mom 🙂

Great teamwork like always 🙂

LDR reading

and temperature and humidity reading

In ProCodeCG, a class is not just a regular class. It’s about teamwork and family bonding too 😉

Next week we will explore more sensors and getting started with Espectro 😉

 

 

 

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino Programming – 11 Feb 2017

Today we added the level of difficulty 😀 We created a schematic for displaying two digit numbers from 0 – 99 using 2 seven segments and 2 shift registers 😉

Setting up the class 🙂

All set up! Raul (on the right arrived very early ;))

Before class started Clarence showed his wifi detecting with espectro project. He had successfully display it to LCD 🙂

The LCD displays the wifi ID the device is connected to and the signal strength, plus the number and  average strength of other wifis detected in range 🙂

A closer look

At the end of the class Clarence showed that had successfully display sensor readings from LDR in numbers and progress bar 🙂 Good work Clarence! 😉

Hello Areli! Welcome back little buddy 😉

Areli had to catch up with the class after missed it for several weeks and he finished the schematic for one digit 🙂 Good work! We will create the 2 digits next week okay? 😉

Ren! Never fails 😉

Ren’s worked just fine 🙂 Keep the wiring because we’re going to add some sensors next week 🙂

Hello Farrell!

Ok Farrell was in the mood today! Great 🙂

He put almost all of sensors he got on his breadboard LOL but the schematic worked 🙂

A closer look of how messy the breadboard looked 😀

Farrell tried to add one seven segment and one shift register but after seeing those cables doubling up the mess he decided to continue that at home or next week 😀

Raul! He hated that he had to do what we did last week but when he knew that this one would be able to display 2 digits instead of 1, he agreed to proceed 😀

The wires! 😀

Raul’s worked straight away 🙂 The first in the class 🙂

Hello Cinta 🙂

Cinta did the catching up eagerly today 🙂

Yay it worked! Next week we’ll do the 2 digits! 😉

Capt. Malik was a bit frustrated after weeks having problems with his gyroscope library. Apparently because he had compiled lots of projects, there are two Arduino libraries folder in the system that keeps conflicting. We should clean it up and re-install Arduino. Hope it will work, otherwise our Air Drum project will be pending again 😦

The class 🙂

We will do more complex but more fun project next week 😉

ProCodeCG codeMeetUp() #93 – TuringSense – 6 Feb 2017

Today, Pak Bullitt Sesariza, Director of TuringSense Asia Lab shared to us about one of cutting-edge technology being developed by TuringSense 🙂

We had cute small guests

and grown-ups too. All very curious about the topic today 🙂

Preparations took a while 🙂

Because the monitor wouldn’t cooperate with Pak Bullitt’s Macbook 🙂

Pivot is a product by TuringSense

TuringSense consists of a global team covers US, Italy, China and Indonesia. The hardware is created in US, the process is done in Italy, the manufacturing in China and apps development is done in Indonesia.

The vision of the company

Pivot is intended to bring expensive professional 3D motion technology to everyone

and bring the capabilities to mass market

so it can be used by anyone, everyone! *note: this is Capt. Awa wearing Pivot devices and giving them a test 🙂

Pivot sensors will show the movement of the body parts wearing the sensors

Makes Pivot implementable to many applications, especially sports

Sports has the biggest market

The vision of Pivot product

It can be used for sports requiring detail body poses like yoga

It can monitor whether you’re doing the pose correctly or not, and will notify you if you get the correct one, warn you about the possibility of injury and count the repetitions for you 🙂

Under Armour, Inc. is an American sports clothing and accessories company that is also developing this wearable technology

TuringSense has premier partners already secured, plus 2 in the works

Pivot is looking for a Unity Programmer and a UX designer 🙂 Interested? 🙂

Some additional demo after the presentation

And all of us who are very lucky to witness this mindblasting latest technology being revealed right before our eyes!!! 😉

See you next time 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Coding Camp – Arduino Programming Day #3 – 7 Jan 2017

Arduino Programming Coding Camp Day #3 🙂

We started doing projects 🙂 Kiran started pedestrian crossing project while Salman catching up with the temperature and humidity sensor from yesterday’s task 🙂

Well Saturday is Saturday 🙂 This is our Saturday be like after 12-days of coding camp in a row 😀

This one is preparing for national exam while reading some thick books during coding camp 🙂

These two kids are amazing. The have created more than 10 schematic in 3 days 🙂

Kiran rarely makes mistakes 🙂

Salman is very persistence typing the code, even though he can’t type as fast as he creates the schematic 🙂

The temperature and humidity sensor works 🙂

Temperature: 22 Celcius and Humidity: 62

This Captain wanted to do pedestrian crossing project too

Salman started to moved to pedestrian crossing project

Kiran’s has worked just fine. Well done 🙂

And Salman’s too 🙂 The picture show the state when the pedestrian is not allowed to cross because the red light on the left is on while the “green” light on the right is on. So in this state, cars will cross the road and pedestrian should press the button to set the pedestrian light to green and cars light to red 🙂

After we finished the first project, the next is to measure height using ultrasonic 🙂

Capt. Awa helped Salman to debug the code 🙂

Okay the schematic is ready we’re measuring heights 🙂 Salman is 125cm

Capt. Fizhan is 150cm. Kiran is 140cm (no picture)

Next project: Battery tester 🙂

Awa still working on Salman’s height measuring coding

Battery tester schematic is quite complex 🙂

Capt. Awa gave up and Capt. Zaki came to fix Salman’s height measuring coding (later we found out that the code didn’t print the sensor reading LOL)

Yaaay after lunch Salman finally finished his battery tester project 🙂 This shows that the battery is half/medium capacity because the LED in the middle is on

This one shows a battery with low capacity because the red LED is on 🙂

Kiran’s battery tester works too 🙂 It shows the same result as Salman’s for the same batteries 🙂 This one is low capacity

And this one half capacity

We did try to add some buzzer to the schematic but still didn’t work. We’ll figure out later 🙂

Yaaay, these two has just finished Arduino Programming Coding Camp! They’re now as good as kids in Arduino Programming Regular Class 🙂

See you on the next Coding Camp in the next 6 months 🙂