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This is a collection of interesting project you can do in Calico.

Contents 1 Draw Shapes with your Robot 2 Animated Bar Charts 3 Live Stickpeople 4 Laura's Brain 5 Historiophotography 6 Analog Clock 7 Genomic Representations 8 Solar System Animation 9 Angry Blocks 10 Geographic Information System

Draw Shapes with your Robot

• Topic: Draw different geometric shapes with your Scribbler Robot. Same kinds of turtle graphics one can draw on the screen, but in the real world! Has camera, image processing, sound, sensors, and more.
• Overview: http://wiki.roboteducation.org/
• Calico modules: Myro
• Ideas for extensions: With the Scribbler2, it has much better control, and so many more drawings are possible: letters, art, etc.

Animated Bar Charts

• Topic: Animated Bar Charts. Create bar charts that change in a smooth manner over time.
• Overview:
• Code: barchart.py
• Calico modules: Graphics and Myro
• Ideas for extensions: visualize real data

Live Stickpeople

• Topic: Display live human stick person animation using the Microsoft Kinect.
• Requires: Micosoft Kinect, and a Windows7 server; code works as client on any operating system
• Background: Calico Kinect
• Calico modules: Graphics and Kinect
• Ideas for extensions: Change the background, and put images rather than geometric shapes on the skeleton

Laura's Brain

• Topic: Visual interactive brain explorer; create slider to show slices of a brain
• Code: http://calicoproject.org/Calico_Graphics#HSlider
• Background: http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/brain/
• Requires: Calico 1.1.0 or higher
• Calico modules: Graphics and Myro
• Ideas for extensions: What other images can you visualize this way?

Historiophotography

• Topic: historiophotography: visual interaction for comparing old photos with modern images of the same artifact
• Code: histograph.py
• Background: An idea that I use with my kids to explore an historic area to its modern-day counterpart. This takes some planning to do well. First, find some old photos, and study them. It helps to print them out on your trip to visit a place. Use them to get a close approximation to the old photo.
• Requires: Calico 1.1.0 or higher
• Calico modules: Graphics
• Ideas for extensions: What other images can you visualize this way?

Analog Clock

• Topic: Create a working graphical, analog clock
• Code: http://calicoproject.org/Calico_Graphics#Frame
• Calico modules: Graphics
• Ideas for extensions: What other ways can you animate a clock?

Genomic Representations

• Topic: Create a representation of items that are connected, genomics fashion
• Code: connections.py, and genomes.py
• Calico modules: Graphics, and Myro
• Ideas for extensions: What real data can you represent in this manner?

Solar System Animation

• Topic: Create a representation of the Earth, sun, and moon
• Code: solar system code
• Calico modules: Graphics
• Ideas for extensions: Other simulations of planetary bodies
• Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReaSMQs-IFE

Angry Blocks

• Topic: Create a version of Angry Birds
• Code: angryblocks.py
• Calico modules: Graphics, and Myro
• Ideas for extensions: Turn into a full game
• Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZJmyQEALA

Geographic Information System

• Topic: Create a visualization of US GIS data
• Background: Calico Python GIS
• Calico modules: Graphics
• Ideas for extensions: Plot data by state, or plot real geographical information on a map