Smart City: Connecting the dots and digital kids
summary
Starts from building a rooftop Earth sundial that winds up cited by NASA and museums, then moves to students coding autonomous models: cardboard vehicles with Hummingbird kit + Arduino sensors for collision avoidance, mBot and Edison bots for line‑tracking, Sparrow “pedestrian” bots, and a 20-dollar cardboard car design that actually drives. Projects run on Scratch and Python, scale into a classroom makerspace, and get invited to present a hands‑on ITS2016 maker-space showing—many prototypes work, some fail, students learn real debugging and system integration.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 14:10Holding our breath for a moment
- 14:59VicRoads Traffic Operations Group
- 16:01Smart Melbourne
- 16:42Modelling Traffic Flow
- 17:33Our Pilot Autocar Vehicle
- 17:45SNAP Software
- 19:59Collision Avoidance
- 22:11To ramp things up
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