A group of Central Missouri Girl Scouts built autonomous robots and earned badges for the efforts Saturday morning at LabSpace Robotics.
LabSpace is a maker space for children and their families in Capital Mall. It allows children to explore coding, robotics, game design, 3D printing and design, engineering and art, according to its website.
Annette Alberts, of LabSpace, said the girls who participated Saturday were Junior and Cadet Girl Scouts seeking their “Robotics 1” badge.
“They will learn about sensors,” Alberts said. “We have some homemade sensors over here that show what a tilt sensor looks like.”
She demonstrated that a steel ball in a plastic cup could be made to touch conductive tape applied to the inside of the cup. When this happened, depending on which strip the ball touched, a cat on a laptop screen would move up, down or across the screen.
The workshop also used a…
