When I was a child, I watched cartoons, played Transformers, 4x4, Yo Yo, and the highest level was playing Lego bricks. Today is different from the past. Now children are so happy. Through two years of exploration in the education field and communication with hundreds of teachers and students, makeblock has developed a mBot robot suite suitable for home and school teaching of teenagers. Makeblock is a highly praised robot building platform, which is committed to lowering the threshold of creation. Using the mblock graphical programming tool and the simple arduino development platform, it is also cheap enough for most children to have the opportunity to learn robot related knowledge, which can be easily used by children as simple as 10 years old. What kind of magical and cost-effective robot kit is this? Let's take a look.

▲ Amazing Unpacking

The front side of the box is simple and elegant. It's a super cute mBot robot kit. Children like it very much when they see it.

Open the box and put it in order. Makeblock pays attention to details. It's reassuring to entrust children's childhood to such a company.

There are many things in the box. There are some small screws. It is recommended that parents should install them together during installation. There is a Bluetooth module in the middle. Be careful not to break the needle on it. Wash your hands before installation to avoid damaging electronic components by static electricity on your hands.

The figure shows the arduino development platform, which is the main control circuit board of the mBot. It has four unique Rj25 interfaces to facilitate children's connection module, on-board infrared emission and reception module, two RGBLED light groups, one reset key, and one USB communication interface.

Bluetooth module is used for mobile phone to control the mBot robot, which is connected to the needle seat of the motherboard through the needle on the back.

Ultrasonic distance measurement module, used for mBot obstacle avoidance, distance monitoring, and somatosensory games.

Tracking module is used for mBot to make tracking trolley.

For the power module, makeblock company provides two power supply schemes, which can use four No. 5 batteries or a charging power module.

The yellow one is the motor module, which connects the wheels to provide power for the mBot.

Infrared remote control, used to control the mBot robot.

▲ Quick installation

General view of installation diagram.

Mainboard interface mode diagram.

Connect as shown in the figure.

▲ Advanced Programming

Installing mblock

Gorgeous programming tool, based on scratch 2.0 open source code, and mblock graphical programming tool.

Connect the mBot to the computer through the USB data cable, turn on the mBot switch, and then click Connect on the software.

Select the com port number, select mbot, and finally select Install Firmware.

The programming content can refer to this tutorial presented with the mBot robot, which is simple and easy to understand, and is very suitable for children.

After programming, click the green flag and run the program on the mBot robot.

Illustration of official programming guidance.

Program well and test on the computer.

▲ Big picture appreciation of super cute mBot

▲ mBot Learning

MBot robot kit information download address:

The mBot is not only a tracking car, but also an ordinary electronic building block toy. It is also a teaching tool to guide children to learn programming and introductory development. It can take any non electronics professional to engage in development research, and enable any basic student to start programming. It is a sharp tool for children to learn programming, and it is also a magic tool for junior developers to start developing, It's so simple, so cute, why not love her!