from the USA and then are some more canadian riders in it. other riders in this show that i know are A.J.

cirque du soleil even went so far to start a official Freestyle BMX organisation in Canada, because the official cycling organisation didn’t care to much about anything that was not road or MTB cycling. Joël Bondu is a french canadian rider that rides for cirque, but they also fly him to all the world cups so he can compete and gain points to qualify for the 2020 tokyo olympics. the same ones you see compete at the X-games and people who ride for like red bull and monster. I’m the coach of the olympic freestyle team in Belgium (but i’m here because i’m a maker and a 3D printer and lasercut nerd) The riders in cirque du soleil are not former olympic riders, they are riders that are still competing, and are the best in the world. EXTRA CHALLENGE: Drive Sphero back to you from the finish line to the start line.Nice, never toughed my knowledge on bmx would come in handy here. Practice getting Sphero to stop as close to the finish line as possible.Ħ. Take turns aiming and driving your robot from the start line to the finish line. Take your Sphero over to the practice driving area.Change your Sphero's color to make it easier to keep track of which one is yours.Sphero can travel up to 4.5 mph! You can also change Sphero's color by dragging the little white circle to a different color in the circle of colors. The blue circle on the vertical line controls the speed. From here you can drag the blue circle inside the gray circle to drive your Sphero robot. You will now be taken back to the Drive screen. Once you have the blue tail light aimed.Remember this is his 'tail light', when it is pointing directly at you Sphero will move away from you forward.

Your Sphero should be rotating around as you do this.

Move the blue circle around the outside of the circle to aim your Sphero.

Click on the Aim button as shown below.

In the Sphero EDU app click on the Drive button on the bar on the bottom of the app as shown below.

Sphero isn't the brightest crayon in the box! He must be aimed each time he starts.

This way when Sphero rolls it will roll away from you. To do this you need to adjust the blue 'tail light' so that it is pointing directly at you. It's important to get this right so that Sphero will follow the path and not bump into anything. Aiming Sphero. When you set Sphero's direction to 0 degrees this is called 'aiming' Sphero. Note in the diagram below that zero degrees is directly away from the user while 180 degress is toward the user.ģ. This makes it much easier to get Sphero robots moving in the direction you want. Get to know Sphero! One of the things that makes Sphero robots so unique is that its heading is relative to the user, not relative to the robot.

Be careful to only try to connect one Sphero to one Fire Tablet at a time.Ģ.

You should get a message ' SPRK Connected' and Sphero's light should change to the color set on the color wheel. The Media Library has 12 Kindle Fire tablets available to borrow with the Sphero SPRK+ Power Kit. Connect Sphero. The Sphero robot is controlled and programmed using an app from your tablet or phone via Bluetooth.

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