Quick Start Guide

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3. What’s a Robot?
4. Swap Sense Blocks
A robot is a machine that senses its
surroundings and acts on its surroundings.
Every robot needs a Sense block and an
Action block. Sense blocks are black and
Action blocks are clear.
Every robot needs power. The blue-gray block
is the Battery block. The Battery block has
an on-off switch. Make sure it’s on before you
start to play; turn it off when you’re done.
To build a robot, you will need a gray block,
a black block, and a clear block. Just snap
them together and you’ve built a robot!
Now take out the Dimbot’s Distance Sense
block. Put a Brightness Sense block in its
place. You still have a flashlight robot, but now
its brightness depends on the light around it.
Test it: Cover the Brightness Sense block with
your hand and the flashlight dims. Move your
hand away and the Flashlight gets brighter.
These cubes are modular which means you
can swap any Sense block for any other Sense
block. You’ll still have a robot, just a different
robot. In the Dimbot we swapped a Distance
Sense block for a Brightness Sense block to
make a Light-sensitive Dimbot.
This guide is also available on the Modular
Robotics website!
Accelerate your learning with a quick and easy
getting started video, watch it on YouTube.
http://www.modrobotics.com/
cubelets/cubelets-getting-started/
https://youtu.be/YPAOCOJibfQ