06: Rover Rescue I

Learning Target

• Become familiar with the Rover Rescue playground
• Complete robot tasks using code blocks

Resources

Helpful documentation and tutorials:

• • Collecting Minerals in Rover Rescue
  • Detecting Obstacles and Hazards in Rover Rescue
  • Features of the VR Rover
  • Strategies for Rover Rescue

You can find additional examples by choosing "Open Examples" in the VR coding window:

  Code Hints

• Drive until minerals are in view
  

• Go to the minerals location and pick it up
  

• Go to the base to drop off the minerals
  

Instructions

Step 1: 

Use this link to access the school's Premium License for VEXcode VR:

https://vr.vex.com/?classcode=TYUDWN

You should see a gold VR icon in the top corner of the screen if you have enabled the extra features:

Step 2:

Click the "Select Playground" button.

Choose the Rover Rescue playground.

Step 3:

Collect 3 minerals and drop them off at the base.

Step 4:

To allow your rover to respond to other events during its travels, you can alter the way your code is structured. There are a couple ways to do this:

Loop-Based (Ladder Logic)	Event-Based (Messaging)

Step 5:

Code your robot to do one or more of the following:

• • Collect additional minerals and drop them at the base
  • Neutralize enemies

Step 6:

Take a screenshot showing your code and the final statistic window. Click the "View Statistics" button to get this information.

For example:

Grading