Mater Christi Learning Commons: Sphero Programming

A Sphero is a robotic ball gaming device that you control with a tilt, touch, or swing of your smartphone or tablet. Students can also code a sphero with behaviours and routines.

You can code your Spero using the following variables:

• Speed
  You can control how fast the sphero travels.
• Duration
  You can control for how many seconds you might travel
• Delay
  Allows you to pause the Sphero so that the movements or reactions you have programmed are more meaningful.
• Degrees
  We can control the direction the Sphero by using degrees to identify how much they turn. Eg. right 90 degrees
• Colour
  ​You can program your sphero to change colours over an identified amountof time. Eg. Fade from green to orange over 60 seconds.

Program your Sphero by using common programming structures:

• Loop
  Control how many times the Sphero will repeat instructions. Eg. When drawing a square, we might loop through instructions four times.
• If _  Then
  We can ask the sphero to change colours IF it crashes into something.