1. Preface:

The education of children is a topic that parents care about, but it is also children's nature to love playing, so the combination of work and leisure is an educational method advocated by many experts. For programming, in the eyes of many people, it is a boring and difficult thing. Vortex programming robot not only makes programming simple, but also allows children aged 6-12 to learn programming in play. Now follow my steps and take a look at this product.

2. Unpacking appearance:

The package of Vortex uses hard color boxes. Is the small robot on the front of the package cute? The manufacturer defines it as the first robot gift for children, and the function of the product is listed below the robot pattern.

On the side of the package, the advantages of the robot and the functions of the product are listed separately, so that customers can have a preliminary understanding of the product.

The bottom of the package, similar to many products, is a brief introduction to the product APP and the manufacturer's information.

Open the box and see the Vortex robot slightly exposed from the top, which has a feeling of holding the lute half hidden, but from the thick layer of EVA protection around it, the manufacturer is more careful about the safe transportation of products.

Except for the robot body, there are almost no accessories for the product. All printed accessories are placed in small envelopes.

In addition to the quick start and warranty card, a round piece of paper with black and white grid is actually a golf hole in APP games. The sticker can be used as a DIY for robots, and returning to the planet is a guide for programming software.

The robot adopts a helmet like shape, and the whole body is made of plastic. With the cooperation of a pure white body, the black eyes look a little mysterious.

On both sides of the robot's eye corner, there is a concave line extending to both sides. This design element also makes the white body no longer monotonous.

Seen from the back, except for the extended middle line, it continues to extend downward to the rear and finally overlaps together, there are no other design elements, which is relatively simple

In fact, there is another reason for the design of the concave line, because the top of the line is a cover that can be opened, and after opening, it is also the location of the battery compartment.

There are two wheels at the bottom of the robot, and its action depends on this. In addition, you can also see the speaker outlet and switch on/off key

In addition, the device has several sensors, some of which are under the transparent acrylic protective layer

3. Function application:

Before use, remember to install batteries for the robot. Since the robot still needs a large amount of electricity, it is recommended to use rechargeable batteries. In addition, when using the robot, it is found that the robot has malfunction or inexplicable abnormalities, mostly due to insufficient power.

The robot has two applications. One is the "Vortex" for common entertainment. Tablet phones can be installed. The other is Whendo for programming, which is intelligent and applied to tablet computers. Let's take a look at the Vortex application first.

The connection between the robot and the application is very simple, but the Bluetooth of the device must be turned on. After opening the APP, it will automatically connect to the device. First, you can set the role of the device in the settings. Selecting different roles will have different expressions, light colors and sound effects.

If the preset character can not meet the requirements, it can also be freely matched, especially his expression. There are quite a few items in total. I believe that you can set up your own, full of personality.

The software also has some preset games, such as Basic Flying Dust, which is the easiest to use. It uses the mobile phone as the steering wheel to control the movement of the robot in all directions. I believe everyone will play it.

In addition to using mobile phones to control leisure golf, it also involves the optical sensors of the device body. After the game is started, the robot will rotate in place. Using mobile phones to simulate the action of golf, the robot will then move forward, touch the holes in black and white paper in the accessories, and complete the task.

The game of dancing and shaking can be used to shake the mobile phone, and the robot will dance gracefully.

The bumper car game, in fact, requires two people to fight. It uses the distance sensor of the robot to make two devices fight against each other. Xiao Bian has only one device, so he can only entertain himself.

Seeing so many games above, can't you meet your needs? In fact, the above games are all officially programmed for robots. Now you can teach kids to do this kind of work. At this time, you need robot programming software: whendo。

Who sets multiple sensors of the robot into multiple visualization modules. If you want to use any module, it is also very simple. In the left toolbar, select the required module and drag it to the middle operation area.

Then you can set the actions generated by the trigger module, and you can personalize the time length, brightness or other settings specific to certain actions.

When multiple options form a complete program, you can use who to burn the degree into the robot, which will erase the original data of the robot and write a new program.

For beginners who are not experienced enough, you can refer to the attached booklet: "Return to Earth". Learn from the examples. I believe that you can start with it after several levels of trial compilation. If you are tired of programming and want to play the official preset program again, just use the VORTEX APP factory settings again.

4. Summary:

A variety of games are preset, and the robot can be operated and controlled by combining the mobile phone app. Because the operation is simple, it is quite suitable or appetizing. Moreover, the combination of the robot's rich expressions, different colors of lights and various cute sounds allows him to quickly get close to children. Visual programming becomes very simple once you start, and children can learn it quickly. This is also a good tool for children's programming enlightenment education. However, there are also some disadvantages of robots. If the power consumption is large and the power is slightly insufficient, various inexplicable failures will occur. The two apps are separated, and the operation is not convenient to merge into one. It is hoped that the manufacturer can continue to improve these.