ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – 2 Feb 2019

Just as promised next week, today we made lots of progress 🙂

Agham has added a stop sign for the school bus so we will get socre when it reaches there

Agham carefully chose and edited the assets of the game

The game is looking very nice, what we have to figure out next is to print score and make the bus comes from the right side of the room each time leaves the room from the left side

Djalu learned how to create apps today 🙂

Djalu is signing up for a coding competition so we’re preparing for it

It took some time to switch from Python to this drag and drop programming 🙂

Djalu’s first app 🙂

Hafiz’s task for today is to create a jumping dinosaurs game like Google’s (when there’s no internet connection) 🙂

Hafiz always do task in detail 🙂 Look how he finds references and make the sprites as close as the real ones 😉

Finally done! We just need to add score and make the cactus appear randomly 🙂 Well done Hafiz 🙂

Captain on Duty: Faris

Faris is doing research on Machine Learning using Python Library to generated random faces

The codes

random process

the international conference publication he’s reading today

These faces are generated by an machine learning algorithm *isn’t it scary that these faces not really exist; but generated by a machine?

Aidia and her big awesome project! 🙂

The mouse on the right will move across and when 3 ultrasonics sensors detect it, it will control the traffic light and then open the gate 🙂 The awesome support from the family (the mom who created the maquette and the father bringing it to the class and bring it back after) that makes this incredible product possible 🙂

Aidia is a very busy little girl, she had to go right away after the class to a dance performance that’s why she looks so cute today with that hairdo and make ups 🙂

Sam, making great progress each time. Like always 🙂

He added more features to the app and he had successfully solve the problem with the sound 🙂

Fadhlan is building a new robot today. The mapping robot

Lots of components to be tested and assembled

After making like 4-5 robots from scratch, today Fadhlan actually followed the manual instructions 😀

and get much better results 😀

We tested the Arduino Leonardo today and it worked fine

we also tested every ultrasonic sensors

next week we will process the input from all 3 ultrasonics

Look at the mess 😀

Al was given the same task as Hafiz 😉

Al gave different looks to his characters

so typical of Al 🙂

Done but still need improvements 🙂

Faishal is working on the same thing as Djalu

Faishal’s first app

He started exploring the block of codes

Figuring out how to set timer for the splash screen

Sulaiman worked on the locker project

We even borrowed Aidia’s book to find ideas 🙂

Farrell got the new components to explore today: joystick, gyro and micro servo

Lots of work to do but Farrell spent some time to help Agham 🙂 Thanks Farrell 🙂

 

Yogi is working on the same game for weeks, that amazingly looks like a real game

He put HUGE effort to the game and pay attention to EVERY details

The movement, the animation, the look, the feel is very real

the key is that the game is not using only drag and drop coding, but mostly written codes.  Complicated lines of codes 🙂

Today Yogi has successfully created what he wanted to do for weeks: make a menu controlled with arrow to select 🙂 Impressive work today, Yogi 🙂

Here’s some of the codes

The result is unbelievable 🙂 Next to do: adding scores and fuel stats 😉

The best about this class is the kids will gather up together and help each other when needed 🙂 This is when a toolbox was turned upside down and all of it contents are in the floor, kids in the class come and help 🙂 Very nice 🙂

Can’t wait to see them again next week 🙂 Until then 😉 ❤

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ProCodeCG Kids Private Robotic Class – 21 Sept 2018

We have a deadline and lots of things to do! 😉 We buy new components each time to make sure we have back ups and all the stuff we need 🙂

Today we test the codes and the components individually

We tested the ultrasonic sensor

Which worked nicely

And then we test the micro servo

and it also worked fine

Fadhlan has to rearrange all the components before we test all the components and see how they work together

Such a big progress in a short time but we still need lots of time for testing and analysis. Plus writing and making poster 😀 Wish us luck!!!

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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 🙂

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 Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 30 Sep 2017

Our Arduino/ESPectro Programming Class today 🙂

Reza was getting ready to unbox his motor servo and try it for the first time

The first task is to make it work

the next is to activate the motor with ultrasonic

And after lots of effort and debugging, it worked 😉 Nice work Reza 🙂

Hyeaaay, Capt. Awa is baaack 🙂

He brought new stuff: a fancy Arduino 101

and a stepper 🙂

Awa had lots of things in mind for the next project 🙂

Awa is going to add timer to his micro servo

and then create a radar with ultrasonic sensor 🙂

Awa asked to be taught how to use dan read an avometer 🙂

While Koosha looking around the big toolbox, Awa measure everything with the avometer 😀 Electronics and components is more interesting to this kids more than candies 😀

Ozan was testing his ultrasonic motor servo

Didn’t work

so we asked Awa for help

The ultrasonic alone was working

The motor servo alone was working. But combined, it didn’t work

Took some time to figure it out and we decided to change ultrasonic with button. Still didn’t work and Ozan will try again next week

Vian started to work with motor servo too 🙂

He was intended to create some robot crawler or something 😀

While Koosha got back to his project: creating an elevator

Koosha’s project drew Awa and Vian’s attention 🙂

Koosha even created an animation to show how the elevator should work

Pretty awesome 🙂

Koosha wants the elevator to play some music

So we were working on making a memory board with some sounds in it to connect to Arduino and make sure the file has been read and then connect it to the speakers

While Cinta was still so into her project

the cryptic and complicated one, which will play different song when different button is pressed 🙂

And here’s some interesting scenes about friendship and joy after the class 😉

See you next week 😉