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Controlling Lego robots with GATE Cloud and tweets

At the university's Headstart Summer School in July 2017, 42 students (age 16 and 17) from all over the UK were taught to write Java programs to control Lego robots, using input from the robots (such as the sensor for detecting coloured marks on the floor) as well as operating the motors to move and turn.  (The university provided a custom Java library for this.) Secondary school students have been taught to program Lego robots and tweet commands to them with the GATE Cloud Twitter Collector.

Tutorial by Adam Funk.