ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro Programming & Open Topics – 6 Jan 2018

Hello Saturday class 🙂

We had a newcomer: Firaas 🙂

There was a problem with Firaas’ laptop: it wouldn’t let browser to browse 😀 Capt. Azriel (green shirt) tried to help

Capt. Faris (dark grey ProCodeCG jacket) and Capt. Ain (grey shirt) helped too

It took 3 captains and we still couldn’t figure it out 😀

So we took different laptop and let Firaas started learning basic programming with Minecraft Hour of Code peacefully 🙂

Yep, it’s done! 🙂

and then Blockly Games

Next, CodeCombat 🙂

Capt. Ain helped

Firaas learned for 3 straight hours 🙂

So he deserved some Minecraft time 5-10 mins before the class ended 🙂

Ain learned a new thing: BlocklyCraft 🙂 A drag-and-drop Minecraft Modding programming 🙂

Capt. Faris gave Ain a jump start 🙂

Ain will be given the task to explore BlocklyCraft 🙂

Nafis was assigned to debug his project all over again 😀

start from scratch

ready to test

the LCD didn’t work

but the ultrasonic sensor worked

trying to make LCD works

it did, and counting 🙂

then we added buzzer, and it worked 🙂 we still hadn’t time to figure out how to make it beep when it counts 🙂

Cinta was doing another challenge in Python

Creating a Hangman game 🙂

These girls collaborating to create the questions 😀

The result

And for the next session, Cinta wanted to do some Minecraft Modding 🙂

While Azriel had a bad headache LOL

We were trying to figure out this code to create a triangle in Minecraft using BlocklyCraft

We had tried every possible ways

And yet it still didn’t work

And kept giving us false result :((

So we called Faris for help

And he found out that something was wrong with the converter and it kept crashing the server

Apparently the converter from Blockly to JavaScript didn’t work smoothly.

So we assigned another task to Azriel: creating structures with RedStone

And our research, conducted by Capt. Faris had shown lots of progress

now the algorithm can count objects

So we add another data sets

we used bigger data set for higher precision

comparison of left: larger dataset, right: smaller dataset

the counting

the dataset

how to change dataset

we need place to run the training because the last time we tried, Google Cloud Engine didn’t work 😦

Will be reporting again next week 🙂

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ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 16 Dec 2017

Hello, welcome back to our regular ESPectro programming class 🙂

Ozan still had a project to do: ultrasonic counter with buzzer and LED 🙂

the ultrasonic and LCD work fine but the buzzer didn’t 😀

And we had Nadine start learning ESPectro programming today 🙂

And Ozan became Capt. on duty today to help Nadine learning 🙂

The first task is to make the LED onboard blink, and the LED on breadbroad blink 🙂

Done! 🙂

And then adding more LEDs 🙂

Worked nicely 🙂

Nadine wanted to learn how to use multimeter 🙂

She learned how to check resistor value and test LEDs 🙂

Look at that! This girl is so eager to learn this kind of thing 🙂 Cool 🙂

Capt. Ozan was busy creating the code to make the LED blinking alternately 🙂 Well done today, Capt! 🙂 :*

There’s always something new to learn and lots of progress each time 🙂 See you on the next! 🙂

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 Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro Programming – 11 Nov 2017

Hello from our kids regular coding class 🙂

Today we only had one kid doing ESPectro Programming: Ozaaaaan 🙂 😉

Ozan had to continue his project: ultrasonic with buzzer and LED 🙂

We changed the plan a bit: the buzzer will beep each time the ultrasonic detects something, not when the counter reaches a certain number

Ozan had to rewrite the code by combining several files together 🙂

It didn’t work so Ozan had to try ultrasonic only with buzzer, without LCD to see if it works. Then attaching the LCD after that 😀

Hang on Zan, you can do it! LOL 😀

We still have next week! 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 4 Nov 2017

Hello Saturday 🙂 Always looking forward to see kids coding in our class 🙂

Morning prep 🙂

Ozan continued working on adding buzzer to his ultrasonic counter

Ozan had to check simple buzzer code to be added to the new code

Took a lot of effort because the same problem occur: the ultrasonic counter doesn’t work with buzzer added

Nafis was back 😀 He’s doing the same project as Ozan and Reza

And Nafis agree to start it all over again and add the components one by one, using ESPectro 🙂

Reza helped to make Nafis’ work

And after the ESPectro shut down for several times due to wrong polarity, it finally worked 😀 but not yet with buzzer and LED 🙂

The most mysterious thing is that Reza’s wouldn’t work

It took Reza hours to debug

He changes the components to find the problem

Still didn’t work, so we decide to take Ozan’s to be tested on Reza’s code

And yes it worked 😀 So we combined Reza’s code with Ozan’s board and it worked well 😀

We’re still curious to find out why Reza’s didn’t work (but at least he has a code that worked well). Reza is a very persistence kid. Won’t stop until it’s done 🙂 Now to buzzer will beep when the count reaches 20 🙂

Next week we will add LED to it 🙂

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming

Our Arduino/ESPectro Programming class today 🙂

One of our extension cable didn’t work so Capt. Awa opened and checked it with voltmeter 🙂

He found the source of problem and fixed it 🙂

Took extra patience and some amount of perseverance to do this kind of job 😀

It took lots of positions too 😀

And finally after several testing, Capt. Awa officially announced that the extension cable was working properly and ready to be used. Thanks so much Capt.!

After got his technical support job done, Capt. Awa got back to his sonar project 🙂 He was experimenting with Parallax
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and its standard servo 🙂

the ultrasonic was mounted on top of the servo

Capt. Awa teamed up with Clarence because Clarence will develop the code to display the reading from Awa’s sonar system to a TFT display

A really great teamwork 🙂

Clarence also has his own project, sorting algorithm visualization

He added more features including serial monitor commands to run the sorting using any chosen algorithm

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Then he started working on ultrasonic

and the reading worked just fine

Next is to add micro servo  🙂

Ozan was still struggling with adding buzzer to ultrasonic counter

The ultrasonic counter worked fine until he added a buzzer 😀

We’ve done lots of debugging and try-and-retry attempts but it still didnt’ work 🙂 Have to try again next week 🙂

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After the class: kids just wouldn’t stop 😀

Friendship scenes after the class 🙂

Capt. Fizhan (corner) was given a project to design a logo for Bu Rieny (Coding Mom Batch-3) with Wibi (middle) and Ozan (right) accompanying 🙂

Will be reporting more excitement next week 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro – 21 Oct 2017

Our dose of coding every Saturday 🙂

Cinta spent 2 sessions continuing her Arduino schematic design and simulation using Proteus 🙂

She tried several designs and with different components

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Proteus provides library of components so it is very helpful 😉

Nafis was back after a while, and he was working on adding buzzer and LED to ultrasonic counter

Nafis refused to connect and test the components one by one; instead he put all components and compile to see what happened 😀 Still not working and he has to debug it on the next class 😀

Nafis little sister, Nayla liked to play with the components (she refuse to be photographed :D)

Awa came with a new toys: Arduino Parallax 😀

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Awa was given a task to create a radar with ultrasonic and microservo and he started with this one 🙂

Awa is fully supported by mom and sister 🙂

And Clarence joined in 😀

These two have their own connections

making a great team 😀

Clarence started to tinker with Parallax code 🙂 He was previously given a task to process data from sonar reading and display it to a TFT screen

Reza was doing the same thing as Nafis but he did it differently: he puts one component at a time and tests it one by one

Reza is one very focus and determined kid 🙂

He kept trying

And the time’s up when he was almost finished. The buzzer won’t stop beeping 😀 Next time he has to modify the code so the buzzer will only beep when the counter reaches some certain number 🙂

Capt. Awa on duty 😀 Blurred pics because he moved so fast! 😀

Thanks so much Capt. Awa :* ❤

See you next week 🙂

 

 

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 Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 19 Aug 2017

Hello Saturday 🙂 Working together setting up the class 🙂

Unexpected family reunion 😀

OK let’s get started 🙂

Abdillah got lots of things to do today because he’s going to a hackathon next week. We need to buy a gesture sensor, and before it arrives, we’re doing experiments with gyro

We tried several devboards including Arduino Uno and Arduino Mega

But the problem apparently because we installed the incompatible libraries. We’ll find the correct ones and try again

Hello Nafis welcome back 😉

Nafis was going to create an ultrasonic counter 🙂

But he got distracted with the avometer and started to learn how to use it. Plus learning how to count resistor values 🙂

He was afraid he was going to electrocuted measuring the value of resistor LOL 😀

Then Nafis started the project with the help of Rezky 🙂

In ProCodeCG Kids Classes, we nurture the willingness to help and share with other kids. Kids are encouraged to teach other kids and share what they know 🙂 Good job, Rezky 😉

Nafis’ messy but cool toolbox 😉

Abdillah also helped Nafis to check the components because the devboard and sensors got heated up because the polarity was reversed 😀 And the ultrasonic sensor got burnt 😀

And finally, it worked. Yeaaay Nafis 🙂

Rezky was still debugging his ultrasonic sensor

and finally it worked! Next is ultrasonic traffic light 😉

Awa! Was busy preparing for next Thursday’s Republic of IoT presentation 🙂

Awa is improving his cat feeder. This is how it looks like. It uses servo to open and close the lid to pour out the food.

Before, it uses button to activate the servo.

And today Awa will use ultrasonic instead of button to activate the servo

Abdillah and Faris helped to set up the servo

And it worked nicely! Yaaaay, Awa is ready for the presentation 😉

And then Awa was given a task to activate a micro servo

doing it together with Abdillah 🙂

And worked. And we’re going to create many projects with servo 😉

Teamwork in class 🙂 Abdillah, Nafis and Rezky are working together to debug Nafis’ project 🙂

This is ProCodeCG Kids Coding Class: leadership, teamwork and sharing 😉

These ones are also teamworking to design something. Cinta is going to improve the ultrasonic traffic light. Probably with counter 🙂

We got lots of ideas for projects, will be reporting soon! 😉