Edexcel 1CP2 3.1.3: Embedded systems
The free BugBot lesson that teach this point, a robot to try it on, and the past-paper questions that test it.
What it covers
Most computers are not laptops or phones. They are hidden inside other things: a washing machine, a car's brakes, a microwave, a traffic light. These are embedded systems, and BugBot is one. This lesson opens the robot up and looks at how its computer senses, decides and acts.
- What is an embedded system?
- Inside BugBot
- Sense, decide, act
- Real time
Or do it in the simulator, with tasks that mark themselves
Lessons that teach it
- F9.8 Embedded systems: inside BugBot Logic and computer systems
What makes a system embedded, the robot's three boards, and the sense-decide-act loop.
Try it on a robot
The task from F9.8 Embedded systems: inside BugBot, running here. Change the program and press Run.
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