The Robot to school
project deals with the robotics studying aimed at using it to acknowledge different subjects involved in this sector.
Our institute took part to the ministerial project Robot@scuola: 35 schools of different orders and levels are connected through the Robot@scuola website to create a practice and learning community.
The class that took part to the project in the school year 2005-06 was the 5th class of the Electronic and Telecommunications course (Course A).
They projected and realized a remote controlled robot through PC, by a camera which monitors its movements. By using a digital wireless receiving and transmitting card that can be an interface with the PC by RS232 and a micro-controller PIC card, by writing a software in Visual Basic and one in C language, we were able to command the robot movement, monitoring the path by a miniature wireless camera. The students could so practise some concepts related to the digital transmission, to programming and interfacing.