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Echo

How an ultrasonic sensor sees

Send a sound pulse, time the echo and calculate distance like a bat. Then program a robot car to stop before it hits the wall.

Grades 5–8 ~15 min BeginnerSound wavesSpeed × timeSensorsThresholds
Echo blueprint illustration

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1 – 10

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Every student

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