I had a vision, I need help with seeing this vision through. I would like to create a giant 3-D 123 robot. I would like to create a human sized board and use the robot for that. I would like to use this to create challenges for social studies activities with my students. I know this team of creative minds can help me see this vision through. @Audra_Selkowitz @Nicole_Champagne @Aimee_DeFoe @Tina_Dietrich @Jason_McKenna
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This sounds like a lot of fun @Desiree_White-Price! Are you picturing a situation where the āgiantā robot is moved along the board alongside the students? Or more like itās āwornā by a student acting as the robot? Can you tell me more about the activity you have in mind? Or share a sketch of your idea to help me get the same mental picture that you have?
Iād love to help make this happen 
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I was thinking more of a giant robot moving along the board. I am thinking in Social studies when we talk about states and cardinal directions. I want to get a giant map that we can lay on top of a huge self-created VEX board. I want students to be able to code the robot to get from one place to another.
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Ooooook I think Iām picking up what youāre putting down now I feel like you could potentially do this with a cardboard cutout? You could potentially poster print a large image of a 123 Robot and attach it to the cardboard, or free hand sketch and paint your own 123 Robot on cardboard?
Making it out of something light weight like that also gives you the ability to potentially attach it to the top of like a VEX GO Code Base, and remote control drive it around your map, or just use it in an analog way, and have kids code their robot to recreate the path of the big one.
The āgiant robotā Iām picturing is like 2ft in diameter, hence the cardboard idea. But Iāll tag @Aimee_DeFoe to see if her maker experience can offer any more ideas, and @James_Nesbitt to chime in on making large scale Field maps. He made some AMAZING ones for Mars Rover stuff!
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Yes, you are getting my vision. I am glad you tagged more friends to make this possible.
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Many moons ago I created a VEX IQ robot that functions similarly to the 123 robot. In theory, you could make a much bigger IQ chassis that does the same thing and then put a nice big foam 123 robot shape on it.
This would be a really cool project!
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That could be a great mixed age opportunity for older students and their younger ālittle buddiesā to work on together! Thatās really neat @Chris_Calver - thanks for sharing!
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@Audra_Selkowitz @Tina_Dietrich We have made some success in our search to make a giant 123. The art teachers are going to try and recreate. Is there anyway we can get a pretty clear picture of the 123 robot and Jo, that would be awesome.
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That is pretty awesome. Do you have the build instructions for this?
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Unfortunately there are not any build instructions for this but you could use the VEX IQ BaseBot and just add 4 touch LEDs to it.
I think a robot with the drive wheels on the centre of rotation (like a 123 robot) would be better, if you were to build something from scratch.
Here is the code though. Itās quite old and was originally on 1st Gen Brain and Gyro although the attached version should work on a 2nd Gen Brain using the inertial.
This version is for the 160mm travel wheels, but that can easily be altered in the drivetrain settings. The variable āmoveDistanceā is set to 305mm (so 1 IQ tile per step) by default. Looking at the code, I think it has a 10x10 list for storing moves, so can store a maximum of 100 moves. It was made sometime in lockdown and pre-123 robots for teaching a 5 year old the basics of sequencing.
FloorBot 1.0.iqblocks (47.6 KB)
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Hey @Desiree_White-Price, here is a little slideshow with some images of the 123 Robot and Col. Jo. I hope itās helpful!
I canāt wait to see how this turns out!
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