CoDrone Mini Junior Badges
Junior Badges
Junior Level I
Earn your CoDrone Mini Junior Level 1 badge after learning about flight events and flight directions. You will also need to complete a project that shows what you know, which will include:
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- Takeoff, hover, and land
- Emergency stop
- Flying up, down, left, right, forward, backward, and turning
- Flight sequences
- Landing on a landing pad
Junior Level II
Earn your CoDrone Mini Junior Level 2 badge after finishing all lessons on variables, loops, and conditionals. You will also need to complete a project that shows off what you know, which will include:
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- Takeoff, hover, and land
- Emergency stop
- Use of multiple variables
- Use of one type of loop
- If and else statements
- Math operators
Junior Pilot
Earn your CoDrone Mini Junior Pilot badge after finishing all lessons on LEDs and user input. These are the last lessons for Junior Pilots! You will also need to complete a project that shows what you know, which will include:
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- Takeoff, hover, and land
- Emergency stop
- Use of multiple variables
- Use of one type of loop in keyboard remote control
- Use of keyboard commands to change the CoDrone Mini’s LED
- Use of keyboard commands to fly a custom flight pattern
CoDrone Mini Junior Badges Achievements
Junior Badges Achievements
Level 0
Perfect Landing Junior
Design a takeoff and landing pad area. Have your drone take off from the takeoff area and then land on the landing pad! The landing pad should be 12 x 12 inches or smaller, and it should be at least four feet away from the takeoff area. All four motors should be on the landing pad upon landing.
Bowling Junior
Use your CoDrone Mini as a bowling ball and get a strike! Make 10 bowling pins out of whatever materials you have on hand. Set the bowling pins up in a triangle at least 6 feet away from the starting point. To earn the badge, you must knock all ten pins over in one try.
Pushup Champion Junior
Have your CoDrone Mini complete 10 pushups in the shortest amount of time possible! A complete pushup is when the drone leaves the ground and touches the ground again. The drone must land before taking off for the next pushup.
Leapfrog
Play a game of leapfrog with your CoDrone Mini! Take turns crouching down and then hopping over each other. First, hop over your drone and then crouch down. Next, program your CoDrone Mini to take off, fly over you, and then land. Your CoDrone Mini should completely fly over you (no bumping into you!) and touch the ground in between hops. To earn this badge, the sequence should be done twice.
Slam Dunk Junior
Program your drone to take off from the ground, go up, go down through a hoop, and land on the ground! A basketball hoop must be made for this challenge. It does not need to be an actual hoop but it must be 18 inches (46 centimeters) in diameter and should be able to stay up through the challenge. The drone must start on the ground, go up, go down through the hoop, and land on the ground.
Level 1
Odd and Even
Design a takeoff and landing pad area. Have your drone take off from the takeoff area and then land on the landing pad! The landing pad should be 12 x 12 inches or smaller, and it should be at least four feet away from the takeoff area. All four motors should be on the landing pad upon landing.
Junior Dice Roll
Set a variable to a random number from 1-6. Program your CoDrone Mini to hop or flip the number of times the “dice” says after the variable is called in the program. Make sure to include a print statement so you can tell whether the number of moves is the same as the random number!
Staircase
Use loops to have your CoDrone Mini fly up and down a staircase! Write two loops: one so that your drone goes up the stairs, and another one so that it goes back down the stairs. Between the two loops, your drone should turn 180 degrees. You will need to complete this sequence twice. Don’t worry if you’re in a place that doesn’t have stairs! It only needs to look like your drone is going up and down stairs.
Level 2
Disco Drone
Turn your CoDrone Mini into a spinning disco ball, complete with flashing lights! Program your drone to take off and throttle up. Your drone should spin in place at least 5 times. Your LED should be a different color for each of the 5 rotations, although it can change multiple times during one rotation if you want!
Obstacle Course Junior
Make an obstacle course for your CoDrone Mini to go through. Program your keyboard to act as a remote control and see what you can do in 30 seconds! If it takes less time to go through, you should be prepared to fly your drone through the course more than once. Your course should include bridges to go over and under, something for the drone to fly through, and something for the drone to weave through. At the end, your drone should flip, dance, or flash its LED.
Secret Code
Use your LED and flight sequences to send your instructor a secret code. Use if statements to program your keyboard keys to perform different flight movements and flash LEDs. Make a codebreaker sheet for your instructor that explains what each movement means. For example, A = throttle up, B = blue light. To earn this badge, your instructor has to decode one of your messages correctly.
Blockly Minimum Requirements
Blockly for Robolink
Blockly for Robolink is an online block-coding platform based on Blockly. You can currently use this to app control the CoDrone Pro/Lite and CoDrone Mini.
Minimum system requirements (CoDrone Pro/Lite):
- Chrome browser version 56 or later
- Hardware that supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), which is different from Bluetooth Classic
- For MacBooks, that means MacBooks from 2012 or newer. Older MacBooks only have Bluetooth Classic, but no BLE support.
- For Windows machines, Windows 10, version 1703 or newer (Apr 5, 2017 update). Older Windows versions don’t support BLE. Check your Device Manager to see if your computer has BLE installed.
- We’ve noticed issues specifically with the Bluetooth driver becoming disabled on these models after about 45 minutes of use: Acer Aspire 3 – A315-21, Acer Aspire 1 – A114-31, Acer Aspire 3 – A315-41, which can be temporarily fixed by re-installing the driver, though this isn’t an ideal user experience. This seems to be a known Bluetooth issue on some Windows machines.
- We have noticed pairing issues specifically with some Windows desktops. If you’re experiencing issues pairing, try using another device if that is an available option.
Minimum system requirements (CoDrone Mini):
- Chrome browser version 80 or later
- We have found a known issue where macOS Catalina sometimes has issues communicating with the Mac laptop’s USB port. Updating to macOS Big Sur seems to fix this issue.
- Chrome browser flag “#enable-experimental-web-platform-features” enabled, which can be reached at URL “chrome://flags” in the Chrome Browser
- We have noticed pairing issues specifically with the Samsung PEN NT950QAA-X716A laptop running Windows 10 Home where Blockly cannot pair
- We have noticed pairing issues specifically with some Windows desktops. If you’re experiencing issues pairing, try using another device if that is an available option.
