My Robotic Friends - unplugged activity

This is a fantastic lesson

called my robotic friends.

It's a lot of fun.

We teach programming
without using computers.

So, we get groups together,

where people program
their robotic friends

to stack cups in
a certain configuration

just by drawing arrows
on paper.

So right now, we are implementing

the activity that they've been
working on.

We had a programmer who
wrote down this program with arrows,

and we have a robot who
is reading the arrows

trying to figure out what
they need to stack using the cups.

So she'll translate the arrows
into specific movements

to try and make one
of these stacks.