This is the first experiment that I am recording but not really the first experiment I have done with Boe Bot. This is an exercise in chapter 7's
Activity #6: The Drop-Off Detector.
In this experiment, Boe Bot will be put on the table and it will detect the edges of the table and turn to avoid itself from falling down.
To play more safely, I handmade a boxboard with a border made of electrical tape makes of a handy way to simulate the drop-off presented
by a table edge below:
It is exactly the same as the book except that I modify the program to light up the two red LEDs according to which way the Boe Bot is turning.
To add more challenges to the Boe Bot, I added some lines in the middle of the boxboard:
