Contents
Welcome! ................................................................................................................... 3
Setting up Edison ....................................................................................................... 3
Get Edison ready .................................................................................................... 3
Get your programming devices ready ..................................................................... 4
Setting up Windows computers ........................................................................... 4
Setting up Mac computers .................................................................................. 5
Setting up tablets ................................................................................................ 5
Meet Edison ............................................................................................................... 7
Edison’s sensors, buttons and switches ................................................................. 7
Connecting Edison to a computer or tablet ............................................................. 8
Programming Edison .................................................................................................. 9
Barcodes .............................................................................................................. 10
EdBlocks ............................................................................................................... 11
EdWare ................................................................................................................. 12
EdPy ..................................................................................................................... 13
Teaching with Edison ............................................................................................... 14
What to teach first ................................................................................................. 14
Teaching the programming languages ................................................................. 14
Troubleshooting ....................................................................................................... 15
Where to start ....................................................................................................... 15
Line tracking ......................................................................................................... 15
Obstacle detection ................................................................................................ 15
Where to get help ................................................................................................. 16
Looking for more ideas? ........................................................................................... 16
Checklist: setting up for success with your Edison robot .......................................... 17
