Quick Start Guide

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5. Swap Action Blocks
This simple brightness go-bot robot has a
Drive Action block (left) that moves the robot
when its Brightness Sense block sees light.
The gray block on the right is the Battery
block.
You can also swap Action blocks. With a Light-
sensitive Dimbot now put a Drive Action block
in place of the Flashlight Action block. Now
your robot has a Brightness Sense and a Drive
block (and, of course, a Battery block).
This robot moves when it senses light. In a
bright room it’s a fast robot. In a dark room
it’s a Slowbot.
Try more swapping.
What if you use a Speaker Action block
instead of the Drive Action block? You get a
Canarybot.
What about a Distance Sense block instead of
a Brightness Sense block? You get a Fraidybot
or a Friendlybot depending on the way the
wheels are positioned. By turning the Drive
Action block so that the robot goes backward
instead of forward, you’ll have a Friendlybot or
Fraidybot.