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I've been trying to get my son interested. He's in the same boat... Knows a little about conditionals and loops etc but hasn't caught it yet. He wanted a RC ca
by rraghur 8y ago
I've been trying to get my son interested. He's in the same boat... Knows a little about conditionals and loops etc but hasn't caught it yet.
He wanted a RC car.. so I asked him to pick an old one apart. Taking parts from that, he built one without steering and just on off control. So now I've got an esp32 and a servo and got trying to make a steerable rover.. he's not going to get all the programming but he's definitely interested..
also the mechanical parts are also pretty interesting and approachable for him (we burnt a couple of hours trying to make a steering mechanism with LEGOs and didn't get anywhere)
I'll start him with prettifying the web page and adding bells and whistles (calibrating the servo, displaying connected/disconnected status etc and whatever catches his fancy)
Fair warning: requires a lot of time and patience.. also go slow (very hard for me to do).. but yeah, this is the time he's gotten the most interested