Robotics Engineers · ages 8 to 12

Robots That See (Walthamstow, Saturday)

VEX AIM: Robots That See. Twelve weeks with a camera on the front. Drive it, code it, then teach it to find the right ball and bring it back with nobody holding the controller.

A VEX AIM Coding Robot on a white field with two blue barrels and a yellow sports ball — The field, the barrels and the ball: everything the camera has to tell apart. · VEX Robotics

Meets: Saturdays, 11.30am – 1.30pm
Runs: 16 Jan – 3 Apr 202712 weeks
Where: Walthamstow HubFour minutes from Blackhorse Road station
Seats: 5 of 10 seats left10 children, two to a kit

What it costs

The full term, 12 sessions: GBP 300.00
One paid trial sessionCounts towards the term if your child stays — the credit is good for 14 days.: GBP 25.00

Book a place

You sign in with your email first — no password to remember. Nothing is charged until you have seen the invoice.

What your child will build

Mission 1: Take the controls

Mission 2: Code the drive

Mission 3: Teach it to see

Mission 4: Depot Run

01Engineering
Mission 1: Take the controls
Drive the gate course end to end without knocking over a barrel.
Weeks 1–3
02Coding
Mission 2: Code the drive
Code a lap of the field that finishes within a hand-width of where it started.
Weeks 4–6
03Sensors
Mission 3: Teach it to see
Find the red ball among three and bring back only that one, using the camera alone.
Weeks 7–9
04Capstone
Mission 4: Depot Run
Score the most deliveries in two minutes with nobody touching the robot.
Weeks 10–12

What they came out with

Mission three: the right ball, and only the right ball. · VEX Robotics
The robot and the controller it arrives with. · VEX Robotics