The Force Coding Kit Motion Sensor
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How to make The ForceTM Coding Kit motion sensor You don’t know the power of the dark side I want to learn the ways of the Force Take out the pieces PCB + Sensors Liht rin PCB SENSORS LIGHT RING PARTS POWER Power Batteries power batteries 1 CONSTRUCT Top case Bottom case top case bottom case kano.me/app/starwars Icons download app icons 2 Let’s bein. Pick up this piece You’ve taken your first step into a larer world Begin It’s called a Printed Circuit Board or PCB 3 Turn over the PCB and slot in both batteries battery Make sure they are the riht way round 4 Take a closer look LEDs leds SENSORS SENSORS small Size matters not It’s made of sensors, LEDs, microprocessors, resistors and tracers 5 Each sensor has two lenses. The top lens sends out an infrared beam Infrared is a type of liht invisible to humans 6 When your hand breaks the beam, it ets reflected back to the bottom lens reflected so the sensor can see where your hand is 7 All four sensors work toether to tell if your hand is oin… movement up, down, forwards, backwards, left, riht, or tiltin 8 Time to add some control control Push the power button onto the PCB 9 Make sure it is snu FIT 10 Now place the PCB into the bottom case CASE Line up the button with the roove in the base 11 Gently push the PCB into the base BASE RROOAARRGGHH! 12 Take the top case light ring and push the liht rin into it 13 Make sure it’s pushed in all the way reinforce I feel it aain. The pull to the liht side 14 Take the top case with the liht rin ALMOST THERE Push it onto the bottom case 15 Until it clicks CONNECT Follow me 16 Choose an icon Rebel Galactic Empire REBEL galactic EMPIRE ICONS Are you liht side or dark side? 17 Place it on top ATTACH Push the pes into the holes 18 To turn it on… We’re onna do this! power on press the power button 19 Now, reach out… put your hand over the sensors. What do you see? The PCB tells the lihts to brihten as your hand ets closer to the sensors 20 The PCB also turns your movements into 1s and 0s – binary code X: 10 Y: 3 Z: 52 I am fluent in over six million forms of communication binary A simple lanuae your computer can understand 21 It beams those 1s and 0s to your computer code X: 10 Y: 3 Z: 52 lettin you make thins move on a screen 22 YAHOOOOO! Your kit is complete, kid 23 Now, simply download the Star Wars™ Codin Kit by Kano app onto your device to start playin with the Star Wars™ The Force™ Codin Kit motion sensor DOWNLOAD Download it at kano.me/app/starwars 24 Go from learner to master as you create endless Star Wars™ adventures 25 The more you train, the more powerful you’ll become 26 ebe9e3 27 ebe9e3 a galaxy of tips A galaxy of tips 28 The power button should always point towards you POWER I’ll take ood care of her. She won’t et a scratch direction so the kit knows which way it is facin 29 To save battery power, put the kit into sleep mode HOLD FOR 3 SECONDS sleep Press and hold the button for three seconds 30 The Bluetooth liht on the side will tell you if your kit is connected FLASHING SOLID BLUE SEARCHING FOR CONNECTED TO YOUR DEVICE YOUR DEVICE connect 31 The lihts on top also tell you dierent thins low power LOW BATTERY CHANGE BATTERIES LOW battery change batteries 32 To chane the batteries, press and hold the side open Pull the top case o 33 Take out the PCB case Why don’t we just use the Force? and chane the batteries 34 Aurebesh is a lanuae in the Star Wars™ alaxy what does 35 Try to translate some of the Aurebesh words you see throuhout this book this say? 36 Somethin not workin? Get help fast at help.kano.me Use these help codes The Force™ Codin Kit not powerin up FK2 The Force™ Codin Kit won’t connect to device FK3 Help installin or usin the Star Wars™ Codin Kit by Kano app FK4 Device isn’t supported FK5 HELP 37 Want more? SOCIAL help.kano.me kano.me/blo kano.me/app/starwars Help with anythin For interestin articles, Download the app from kits to codin help, and hihlihts onto your device /teamkano /kanocomputin @teamkano For tutorials, films Talk to us, and et Send us your pics and fun stu the latest news and questions 38 Only now, at the end, do you understand 39 You must unlearn what you have learned 40 © & TM LUCASFILM LTD COPYRIGHT © KANO COMPUTING LTD 2019 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 19G9045-01A.