Gyro Precision Vocabulary

Word Bank

Fill In the Blanks

1. A is a sensor that detects how the robot is turning.
2. The robot’s is the direction it’s facing, in degrees, and it starts at 0.
3. The chip inside the hub that holds the gyro is the .
4. When the robot slowly veers off course because small errors add up, that’s .
5. Turning the gyro on makes the robot’s turns more .
6. means measuring what the robot really does and adjusting the numbers.
7. A positive heading or turn goes (to the right).
8. When the robot does something unexpected, that’s — it did exactly what the code said.

Quick Checks

• Circle what a gyro senses:
  distance / turning / color

• The heading starts at what number when the program begins?
  Circle one: 0 / 90 / 360

• You turned the gyro on and the same square ended up closer to where it should. Did the gyro make the turn more or less accurate?
  Circle one: more / less

• Your turn(360) over-spun a little past a full circle. Should you try a turn number that’s bigger or smaller?
  Circle one: bigger / smaller

Stretch: Read the Code

What will this robot do? Write it in plain words.

robot.use_gyro(True)
robot.turn(360)
print(hub.imu.heading())

It will: