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• Go to the Robo-Dancers webpage at jumpto.cc/robo, and click ‘Make Something’ to get started.

• Press the left and right arrows to choose your dancer, and click ‘Let’s dance’ when you’ve chosen one.

• You can also choose the music that your robot dances to.

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• Click and drag the yellow sliders to change how different body parts move.

You can alter the amount of movement and the starting angle of your robot’s body parts.

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• Click ‘Code Mode’ to start coding your robot.

• Scroll down, and for each body part you’ll see a number of variables.

• Change the rightUpperArm_reverse variable from false to true.

rightUpperArm_reverse = true

Click ‘Run the code’, and you should see the right arm move in the opposite direction.

• Set the rightUpperArm_tempoMultiplier to 2 and click ‘Run the code’.

rightUpperArm_tempoMultiplier   = 2;

This will make the right upper arm move twice as fast as the music. You can use a value like 0.5 to make the arm move at half the speed of the music.

• You can also change the amount and angle of movement.

rightUpperArm_amount    = 98;
rightUpperArm_angle     = 129

The amount can be between 0 and 150, and the angle between 0 and 360 degrees.

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• A bar is a set of 4 beats.

If you look at the top of the code, you’ll see that a variable called bar changes from odd to even every 4 beats.

You can use this variable to change how your robot dances in odd and even bars.

• This code decides how fast the hips move:

This means that the hips move at normal speed during even bars and at half speed during odd bars.

• You can copy and paste any variables into this code, to make the robot dance differently during odd and even bars.

For example, you can just make the hips move during odd bars:

if (bar == "even") {
    hips_tempoMultiplier    = 1;
    hips_leftRight          = 0;
} else {
    hips_tempoMultiplier    = 0.5;
    hips_leftRight          = 10;
}