Craft Magic with AI Hand Gestures
This challenge has been written by Georgia Lascaris and is part of the EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES.
Target Audience
- Teachers and educators
- Primary School students (6 to 12 years)
- Lower Secondary School students (12 to 16 years)
Experience
- Intermediate
Duration
- 90 min for students 10-12
- 45 min for students 12-15
Recommended Materials
- Programming platform https://ai.thestempedia.com (free)
- teacher account (free)
- student account (free)
- Computers with camera
- Internet connection
Purpose
- To cultivate coding skills among students, allowing them to use basic commands.
- To develop algorithmic thinking skills by breaking down complex tasks into manageable steps.
- To encourage creative problem-solving in finding unique applications of hand gestures for drawing and writing.
- To foster an understanding of AI concepts, particularly how AI enables computers to recognize and interpret hand gestures.
- To raise awareness about the significance of technology for individuals with disabilities.
- To promote collaborative problem-solving and teamwork among students as they work together to improve their hand gesture programs.
- To connect coding and computational thinking skills to real-world applications, emphasizing the meaningful impact of technology on people's lives and aligning with Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).
Description
Create a Scratch block-based program using the AI “Human Body” extension in a creative and engaging way, in order to draw on a screen without the need for a traditional mouse or touchscreen.
Instructions
- Connect to the https://ai.thestempedia.com and create a teacher & students accounts.
- Import the extensions ‘Human Body Detection’,’ Pen’,’ Text to Speech’.
- Add the ‘Pencil’ Sprite from the library and create 7 sprites (‘write’, ‘clear’, ‘black’, ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’, ‘pink’).
- Write commands to check what happens when the ‘pencil’ sprite touches one of the other sprites.
- Write commands to enable the camera to recognize Hand Pose and move the pencil to the x and y coordinates of your index finger.
- Change costume at the end of the roll.
- Add sound effects.
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