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 – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 2 Dec 2017

Hello hello!

Today we had three kids working on Arduino/ESPectro 🙂

Yes, Capt. Awa and his toolbox is back 😀

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Awa was planning to work on his radar project 🙂

While Ozan needed to install libraries and drivers for ESPectro because he was using different laptop 🙂 But he was working on ultrasonic with buzzer and light before attaching it to LCD

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The code

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Nafis was doing the same thing like Ozan was doing: making ultrasonic works with LED and buzzer and then attach the LCD

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Nafis had some problem: his computer wouldn’t detect the port and we still hadn’t figured it out until the end of the class and we had to work on it next week 🙂

Awa got help from his mom and dad 🙂 A very nice family teamwork 🙂

And finally the servo worked 😀

As a dedicated captain, Awa spared sometime to fix broken cables 🙂

So proud and happy to have a Captain like this, thanks Capt. Awa 🙂 ❤

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 – 14 Oct 2017

Hello hello! We are reporting our Saturday regular kids coding class 🙂

Cinta spent two sessions working on PCB design and simulation using Proteus 🙂

She was very excited 🙂

Cinta started with resistors, buttons and LED’s

Proteus can be connected to Arduino IDE

Then Cinta added more and more components to her design 🙂

An awesome way to simulate 🙂 Next lesson Cinta will be given task to simulate a Tic Tac Toe on Arduino 😉

Helloooo Ruben was back 🙂

This was where we left: creating and ultrasonic counter 🙂

Capt. Faris helped Ruben with the code

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And after several debugging, installing, and testing, it worked 🙂

And then Ruben was given this: adding buzzer and lamp to the previous one 🙂 So that when the counter reaches certain number, the buzzer will be active and so will the LED 🙂

Ruben likes to assemble things 🙂

The LED worked but not yet the buzzer 🙂

Will work on it next week 😉

Koosha had a new project 🙂

First he collected the components and the tools

Including this light to give better light

Koosha prepared lots of breadboards, buttons and RGB LEDs

He wouldn’t tell what he was doing 😀

We had to make lots of guess

Until…

Koosha was working on a Tic Tac Toe on Arduino 🙂

Excellent idea! 🙂

He still has to add more resistors and wires and also the coding, and we will continue working on it next week 🙂

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

Our Arduino/ESPectro Programming Class this morning 🙂

Ozan was ready to modify automatic pedestrian traffic light with ultrasonic 🙂 We were going to add LCD to display information to pedestrian 🙂

It worked 🙂

The display will show the color of the traffic light:

red

yellow

green. Ozan had to change all the text into some info for pedestrian so they will know when to cross and how many times left 🙂

Nafis

and Rezky were working on the same project as Ozan

These two like to work together

helping each other finding bugs and make the schematics 🙂

and worked 🙂

We just had Uben back! His usual laptop was in repair so he brought another one. We spent some time to install and setup everything 🙂

Uben was told to create ultrasonic counter

 

Uben likes to assemble things like this 🙂

Too bad we didn’t had time to type in the code and compile it. Going to do it next week! 🙂

Next week we will explore projects with micro servo! 😉