Mr. Heise
Robotics Class Makes a Movie!
This week the Robotics/Raspberry Pi class turned into a film studio. With Coffeehouse coming up on March 12, the students began working on a short video that shows what the class has been building and learning this semester. Instead of just describing the projects, we decided it would be more fun—and more honest—to show the students in action: soldering wires, debugging Python code, blinking LEDs, and occasionally staring at the screen wondering why something that worked five minutes ago suddenly doesn’t work anymore. I didn't anticipate that editing this would take me 20 hours in Adobe Premiere Pro editing studio... but you live and you learn!
The students also helped come up with short humorous “job titles” for the opening montage, loosely inspired by tech companies—senior software developer, energy systems manager, etc. that fit the personalities of the group. Hopefully our movie shows that learning to program and build hardware is rarely a straight line and involves a lot of experimentation, trial and error, and figuring things out together. The Latin kids wanted in too, so we found an unobtrusive way to put their fingerprints on the project. Stay tuned for the closing credits, which have some easter eggs like "Filmed with Camerae Rōmānae et Lentēs Imperiī" which translates to “Filmed with Roman Cameras and Lenses of the Empire.
