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Our battle robot will be remote controlled - so let's start by building the remote. Find the parts in the picture from your kit. You can click on the picture to zoom in.
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Cut two of the sticky pads in half, and stick them onto the 4 corners of the front of the micro:bit.
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Peel off the other side of each pad, and stick the micro:bit on the controller body.
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Stick the other two pads onto the back of the battery pack (the side without the switch).
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Stick the battery pack onto the other side of the micro:bit, put the batteries in, and plug in the connector. Now we are ready to download some controller code!
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Plug in your micro:bit with the USB Cable, and transfer the program you have just downloaded.
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Now we need to build the robot! Add the main board, light sensor, buzzer, motor and infrared cannon blocks to the baseboard like the picture.
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Plug in the cables like the picture - the cannon should be plugged into P0, the light sensors to P1 and P2, the buzzer to P8, the left motor to M1, and the right motor to M2.
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Plug in your micro:bit with the USB Cable, and transfer the program you have just downloaded.
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If you have a second robot, you can fight each other using the remote controls! The second robot (and its controller) will need to be on a different channel to the first - be sure to change the channel number in the on start block in both the code for the controller and the robot. If you don't, the same controller will move both robots!
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If you don't have a second robot, you can use your TV remote control to fire and make your robot lose lives! Remote controls also use infrared light - the same thing that makes the infrared cannon work on the robot.
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For advanced inventors - can you change the program blocks in the forever section to make your robot display different faces, or be invincible?