Day One: Take Off!
1. Find out all about the
Tello EDU mini-drones
• How do we connect to them to our iPads?
• How do we use them safely?
• What do we do if something doesn't work
correctly?
2. Coding your first flight
• Taking off, landing, and basic flight manoeuvres
in the Drone Blocks block-coding interface
3. Your first flight challenges!
• Can you code a flight across the room from one
landing mat to another?
• Can you code a flight to a 'landmark' in the room
and take a photo of it?
• Can you code your drone to make shapes in the
air: triangles, squares!
Day Two: Looping and flips
1. Taking it to the next
level: using repetition (loops) in your code
• Can you use loops in your Drone Blocks code to
fly more complex shapes in the air? (hexagons, octagons, more)
• How can we use named functions to make our code
easier to understand?
• Adding drone flips! Flipping our drones forward,
backwards, left and right
2. Strictly Come Drone Dancing
• Can you work with another group to create a
coordinated dance routine with two drones flying simultaneously?
Day Three: Drone Blocks
Challenge Day
1. Choose a challenge, plan
a solution
• Choose one from a set of challenges based on
real-world drone usage! Can you plan, code, test and debug a working solution,
using everything you've learned so far? Can you work together to improve your
solution?
2. Capturing the moment
• Can you create a short movie to share your coding
journey, including voice-over, music, photos and screenshots to explain your
solution?
Day Four: Let's get Swift!
1. From block-based to
text-based: an introduction to drone coding in Swift
• Learn how to code the Tello mini-drones using the
text-based Swift programming language
• Learn some key flight terminology, including gaz,
yaw and pitch. Can you link Swift commands together to create complex flight
patterns?
2. Swift programming
challenges
• Select from a range of drone coding challenges:
can you achieve them now using Swift?
Day Five: Drone piloting
1. Flying our drones in real
time
• Learn to fly the Tello drones 'live',
remote-controlling them from your iPads!
2. Drone piloting challenges
• Select from a range of drone piloting challenges
based on real world drone scenarios. Can you fly through a 3D course of hoops?
Can you fly through 'Block City' and capture a photo or video of the movie
star?
Students will be provided with all kit and safety
equipment required.
