Notes

Color Parameters

• Red intensity (Range: 0 to 100).
• Green intensity (Range: 0 to 100).
•  Blue intensity (Range: 0 to 100).
  Once you have run this code try changing the integers (SetBeak (0,100,0) makes green. What other colors can you make. 

This code makes the beak blink Red, Green, Blue.
Pause make each blink last half a second.
StopAll turns off all the lights,
repeat makes the whole process happen 3 times. 

Explore what other light effects you can create.

New: we are creating integers that change by addition  and subtraction while the program runs.

At the start red (r) is zero green (g) and blue (b) are 100. Then we create a loop that repeats until r = 100. Once r is 100 it skips down to the end and does the remain code. Each we loop we add 5 to r, subtract 5 from g, and subtract 3 from b. 

Feel free to change up the code to make a beak light show.  REMEMBER: r,g,b must be a whole number between 0 and 100. If you change the formulas and it create a a number that less than 0 or greater than 100 it will fail! 

This grid shows what light you want to turn on 7 & 9 are the eyes so the 7th and 9th spots should be 1. How would make a frown?

Is your code different or the the same as the sample? If does what we asked the robot to do, then it is a successful code. Our code was 14 lines long. It is possible to do this task in 13 lines. Which line do you think was unneeded?

(Line 13, we had already stopped everything in in the last repeat of line 11!)

As a computer programer we want our code to be no more complicated than it needs to be. 

This code is the same as the past program except for 2 line. The say command is apart the basic Quorum program. The robot does not have the ability speak on it's own. But when you run the code your computer will speak. 

say "any words you want" any text you you in the quotemarks will be spoken. 

A Short code with a lot going on.
Line 3 has two numbers. The first number is the speed of the left whee, and the 2nd number is the speed of the right wheel. The number in the Pause (line 4) tells the robot how long to turn the wheels before stopping. On the test robot moving on a white board these numbers worked to make a 10cm diameter circle.  

What numbers would you need to change to make the robot go clockwise? can you make small or larger circles?

This is a good activity to use your colored pens. 

Create a chart like the one below. 
You will change line 3 and run the code by ten each time. 

1 does not move the wheels.  Do this 10, 20, all the way to 100. Using the pen will make it easy to then measure each line created. If you have a big paper you can use the line as a graph!

• If both speed numbers are the same then the robot moves in a straight line forward for positive numbers and backward for negative number. 
• The range of the speed is -100 to +100. 
• 1,0,-1 all do not move the wheel.
• These are numbers so you can use decimals (0.5 or 10.4).

Try adjusting the numbers to create small or larger spirals. 

The output shows you the number that is the length in centimeters that the robot just moved in the consol on your computer. 
In SetMove the distance can not be a negative number. If you want robot to go backwards you need to use the text "backward". 

Can you make your robot make the same shape from small to large? 

The sound of the Finch is not loud or high quality.  The Finch 2.0 understands MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)  and the first  perimeter tells how high or low a note will be. This integer should be between 32 and 135.

The second parameter is for how long the note should be in time.

In line 4 and line 7 there is a variable named "l" (lower case L) It looks a lot like the number 1. Perhaps we should have used the "d" for duration.

There are 104 different notes that the robot can play that's why we repeated 104 times.

The device that makes the sound on the finch robot is very small, it is more like a buzzer than it would be like a speaker. You may notice that some of the notes are louder, and some softer, Different Finch robots will have slightly different loudness levels on any particular note.

In the instructions from the company that makes the finch it says that the duration of 1 should be one second. We have found that this is not the case and the duration is much shorter. For that reason, we have inserted a pause with the variable d. You can change variable d to make the notes have different duration.

Here is a chart of all the MIDI NoteNames on the Finch! Finch MIDI codes.