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TPbot Big Mouth

Purpose

To build a big mouth TPBot.

Materials Requested

TPBot Smart Car

360 degrees servo

Bricks Pack

Assembly Steps

Hardware Connections

Connect the 360° servo to servo 1 port on the TPBot.

Software

Microsoft makecode

Program

Click "Advanced" in the makecode drawer to see more choices.

For programming the TPBot, we need to add the extensions. Click "Extensions" at the bottom of the drawer and search with tpbot in the box, then download it.

Samples for program

While on start, set to show an icon and make the servo drive to 90 degrees; set the car to drive forward at the speed of 30% and pause for 2000ms; set the servo connecting with S1 to ratote to 180 degrees.

Program

Reference link: https://makecode.microbit.org/_AYtaMUgroVbh

You may download it directly here:

Conclusion

The big monster would open the mouth and drive forward for 2 senconds after powering on, then it stops and close the mouth.