Kindergartners at Brighton School created a Robotic Flower and Bug Garden inspired by the Robot Garden System built at MIT The Kindergarten students attached flowers with embedded LED lights and speakers to Arduino micro-controllers and then attached sensors to an underground “floor” beneath the flowers. They then released tiny electronic Hex bugs to roam the floor, and whenever the hex bugs came near a sensor, the lights above would flash and a harmonic tone recorded by the Kindergartners played. The Kindergartners created the flowers; wired the flowers, speakers and sensors; wrote the Scratch code used to control the Arduinos and decorated the garden.
