Build your own Calliope mini fitness trainer
This challenge has been written by Amazon Future Engineer | Meet and Code feat. Calliope gGmbH and is part of the EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES.
Target Audience
- Teachers
- Primary school (5-12)
- Lower secondary school (12-16)
Experience
- Beginner
Duration
- 20-30 minutes
Purpose
- To playfully get to know sequences, animations, repetitions and variables.
- To design a structure chart.
- To test and debug code .
- To optimize a program by trial and error, checking and adjusting usability.
Recommended Materials
- Calliope mini StarterBox (if available)
- Laptop or tablet with which you can visit https://makecode.calliope.cc or https://calliope.cc and YouTube to access to resources for the activity.
Description
Participants will develop a digitally controlled prototype that uses a colorful glowing LED to reproduce a preconceived 10-unit fitness exercise.
Instructions
- To get started, create a plan and determine the order of the exercise units. Using the schedule, program the RGB LED of the Calliope mini to display one of the 5 colors at the predefined pace. Then create a variable for the pace and program repetitions using loops.
- Remember, if you've implemented the program in a way that you like, you can also share it with us at info@calliope.cc - we're excited to see what you make of it! By the way, we're giving away 30 Calliope minis among the submissions!
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You prefer to share your challenge(s) on Facebook? EU Code Week will pin a new Challenge post on their Facebook page . You then just need to comment on the post with the link to your work.
Winners will be selected and offered Code Week goodies every day during Code Week between 9 – 24 October and announced on our Instagram and Facebook channels, so don't forget to check your notifications regularly.
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Example
While you’re sitting at your computer: you can get sporty too.
Create a fitness prototype with the Calliope mini which can also be tested in the simulator. The challenge is done in the MakeCode editor by programming a simple code sequence (see screenshot).
Choose 5 different colors and assign a fitness exercise to each of them, e.g. squat or jumping jacks. Then the colors can be lined up in any order and trained.
Create a fitness prototype with the Calliope mini which can also be tested in the simulator. The challenge is done in the MakeCode editor by programming a simple code sequence (see screenshot).
Choose 5 different colors and assign a fitness exercise to each of them, e.g. squat or jumping jacks. Then the colors can be lined up in any order and trained.
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The EU Code Week website for schools is a service supported by the European Commission
Except where stated otherwise, content made available on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Licensing under Creative Commons licenses does not of itself affect the ownership of the copyright
Content from third party websites is subject to their own copyright restrictions; please refer to the site of origin for more information.