ROB0148-EN-LB micro: Maqueen Lite Reference: API & Pinout

This comprehensive guide introduces primary and secondary school students to programming with Maqueen, using the Scratch 3.0-based platform Mind+. Through 20 teaching cases, students explore robotics and enhance their creative and analytical skills, aligning with STEAM education principles.

Other Supplementary Information

Maqueen Lite User Manual
Click to view online tutorial: https://edu.dfrobot.com/course-661.html
Click to download the tutorial:
1.crazy maqueen -mindplus
2.silly maqueen -makecode And Maqueen & microbit Graphical Programming
3.Maqueen Mechanic Getting Started Guide（MakeCode）-20200929.pdf
More tutorail: click here
Product Pictures: ROB0148-EN-LB LG LR LW product pictures.rar

Introduction to Teaching Contents and Documents

This book provides a cost-efficient and fun way for primary and secondary school students to learn programming. The courses guide them to explore how to control a robot car Maqueen by coding, during which they will get to know the basics of robotics. Maqueen is a mini robot car intensively designed for STEAM education, small but powerful. It is developed based on the popular micro:bit board. Children can code Maqueen to play, learn and create so as to enhance their analytical and creative thinking skills, which is precisely what the original intention of STEAM education is.

The programming software Mind+ is used in this book. Mind+ is a Scratch 3.0-based graphical programming platform that supports all kinds of open-source hardware such as Arduino and micro:bit. Drag and drop graphical code blocks to make programs, or use high-level programming languages like Python, C, C++, etc. to code. Easy to experience the joy of creating.

This book is composed of 20 teaching cases, including some classic games like Catching Apple, Cat and Mouse, etc, and projects related to life scenes like Obstacle Avoidance Maqueen, Research and Rescue Maqueen. Each case is designed based on teaching practices. It aims to inspire all children to participate in programming and pave the path for them to further develop and create.

Refer to CSTA curriculum standard, the course catalog and field distribution are shown below:

Product Configuration List

Image	List
	Maqueen Lite Vehicle Body x1(Note: Motors, vehicle wheels, support wheel, skin, and battery holder have been installed before delivery) H-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor x1 Line-tracking Map x1 Quick start Guide x 1

Library

Load MakeCode Graphical Library for Maqueen:
- Click the link: Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit (microbit.org), enter the MakeCode graphical online programming platform.
- Click "New Project" on the platform to create a new project.
- Name the project as you want, for example, name it "maqueen1" and click "Create" to confirm.
- Then enter MakeCode graphical programming page as shown in the following figure:
- Click the Settings icon in the upper right corner and click "Extensions" in the drop-down menu.
- Search the MakeCode Extensions for "dfrobot" and select "maqueen".
- Load neopixel library in the MakeCode Extensions by the same way.
- The loading is successful, as shows in the following figure: