Creative Inventions and Robotics

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Creative Inventions and Robotics
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Ordinary Anyone can draw this.
Way Cool Make your friends say, Wow!
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You will learn to use PowerPoint to create
imaginative graphics for your animated stories
and games.
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Start free form designs with ovals or
ellipses. This can help you get symmetric designs
that are pleasing to the eye.
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Set up your Drawing menu.
If you dont see the drawing command line, go to
View / Toolbars / Drawing
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Start free form designs with an ellipse. This
will help you get symmetric designs that are
pleasing to the eye.
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Select the curved line tool from AutoShapes /
Lines Click to start a curve. Click to define
points around the curved shape. Use the ellipse
as a guide. You must end with a double
click exactly where you started to close and
fill in the shape. Dont worry if the shape is
not quite symmetric.
Select AutoShapes / Lines / Curve
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To edit the curved lines, right click on the
shape. Select Edit Points Adjust points until
the shape is just the way you want it.
Right click on the shape.
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Add color gradations. - Select object. -
Select Paint Bucket options / Fill Effects / 2
colors)
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Draw wings. You will need send the wings to the
back.
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Grouping Objects This allows you to move and
scale a collection of objects as though they are
one object. Select the objects to group by
dragging your mouse around all the objects. You
will see a dotted line rectangle. All the
objects selected will be surrounded with little
squares. Select Draw / Group.
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Getting your rocket ready for Scratch. Your whole
rocket should be one group. Rotate the group so
your rocket is pointing to the right. Size your
rocket so it is small enough to let other things
happen on the screen. Position your rocket so it
is in the center.
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Format the background to be black.
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Insert a duplicate slide. Ungroup and delete the
fire so you can animate your rocket to show the
rocket firing when you move it. You should now
have two rocket images.
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• Scratch process to import rocket into Scratch
• Save PPT rocket slide to rocket.jpg on the
  desktop
• Open Scratch
• Click on Sprite with cat.
• Select costumes
• Import Desktop rocket.jpg
• Edit this costume.
• Select transparent color (bottom right gray/wt
  squares)
• Select paint bucket and apply transparent color
  to black or white background.
• Rotate rocket so it points to the right.
• Delete cat costumes.

Download Scratch for free. http//scratch.mit.edu/

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Save your PowerPoint rocket as a JPEG image.

• You need to
• Save to desktop.
• Name file so you can recognize it.
• Save as type, JPEG.
• Click on Save and select No to save only the
  current slide.

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Import your JPEG from the desktop to
Scratch. Launch Scratch. Select the Cat sprite.
Select Costumes. Select Import. Import your
rocket graphics and delete the cats. Edit the
rocket graphics.
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Create transparent backgrounds. Select the gray
square color box. Select the paint bucket.
Click on the black background.
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Save your PowerPoint rocket as a JPEG image.
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• Scratch process to control rocket with arrow
  keys.
• Select Sprites and drag and drop the commands
  onto the program area.

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• Create a space scene and import it as a
  background in the stage.

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