Ai Climate Monitoring

• This our logo and this is who we are.

• Its always important to refresh the participants of who you are and what you do in order to have it linked to their mind so they will never forget.

• Lets Ice break with them through questions not related to the session.
• What does this refer to (FAB) and (LAB).

• I have repeated this approach many times and I realized that this took participant 2 to 3 workshops to digest the meaning of (Fabrication Laboratory).
• I usually simplify it to Dream lab –> what comes to your mind your hand can fabricate it in this lab.

• This is How we are divided in to zones.

Now lets start curving bit by bit to the session topic through asking questions and they answers.

• This question is more related to the country we are in so for others just change the country and the picture ^-^

Qatar has one of the most dry climate its very rare to rain and the heat is very very very high in summer reach’s 50 easily.

• Qatar is continually building and planting green areas all around the country to overcome the heat and they are trying there best to spread awareness among the residence about the importance of taking care of these green areas and green trees.

• Some examples of green areas built by the country.

• Finally we need to start talking about our main topic (the climate change)
• Qatar has established a Ministry for that { Ministry of Environment and climate change (MOECC).

As previously we have curved to the topic and now we need to dig deeper a bit in the topic.

lets keep the participant attracted to us through another question.

• The main problems we are facing now are higher temperatures and less rainfall.

The earth temperature

The average temperature of the earth is 15 degree Celsius

• This average is an indicator for the entire year temperature.

• The 1.5C solution is an agreement to keep the earth temperature within the limit through some preventation actions.

• One of the international approach for sustainability.

• Lets ask the participant if they might know what is this mean

• The needed goal is the 13 (climate action)

Now I will talk about the entire Project and what we will talk in int.

• lets just show participant what we will do today.

Pictoblox is a programing platform based on Scratch platform.

The main difference between Scratch and Pictoblox

• Scratch is a pure programing software focused on broad programing experience
• While Pictoblox provides a similar visual programming experience but with a stronger emphasis on integrating programming with physical hardware and educational robotics.

So in general what makes Scratch strong is it an open source platform and any one can build his software upon it exactly like Pictoblox.

• So here for programing we need libraries to include more functions and more things todo, This where Pictoblox excel there is alot of AI libraries we can include and also we can code many boards linked to the platform or even stand alone.

Now In simple words

This is the layout of PICTOBLOX

Note : Im not going to explain and discuss how to code on pictoblox but I will leave a video Link below which is gonna explain how to use it in the very simple form.

Video LINK

After getting to know how to code and how to add libraries in Pictoblox.

This day we are going to use the following extensions.

1- Weather Data

2- Text to speech

In the weather data library we will have all the needed functions to get the weather information of a specific area through knowing the Latitude and longitude

Below a link to a full documentation of the Library

LINK

The Text to Speech library contains 3 functions to read aloud the text and change the tone of the voice and the language spoken.

Below a link to the full documentation of this library.

LINK

As for what we are going to do today:

We will build a conversation to give the weather information about DOHA capital of QATAR.

DOHA : 25.2854° N latitude and 51.5310° E longitude

for each student (he/she can enter the city they want, they need to search google for the long. and lat.).

I will provide the entire code in the attachment section above.

I will start by recapping what we already have delivered during the past day.

• Make sure to let the participants say at least one thing they have learnt during the last session
• one of the important topics we covered during the last session (longitude, Latitude).
• What did we use to code the application last day.

Lets start our session with a question.

• What do AI refer to as A –> and I–>

we will explain this to them in words then we will combine the phrase together for the new meaning.

• Let them give examples about things made by human.

Then lets explain the other part of the phrase.

• Ask them why this is combined with the word artificial.

Then the two words together makes the phrase Artificial Intelligent.

• Ask them if they have used this before or they want to use it more in the future.
• Ask also how do you think we can make this happen.
• How AI is becoming intelligent?

Then we will ask them about the ML which is the way of making these computers Intelligent.

• Its not right to compare machine learning to Artificial Intelligent but most people do, so we need to explain this as a incorrect step as ML is a subset of AI so there is no comparison between them.

Machine learning is the process of teaching the machine how to be intelligent.

Then we need to explain the process of building a model in machine learning

Then we need to explain the technique of building models.

1- The supervised learning

• The way where the data are labeled then trained for the machine to make decision or prediction.

2- The unsupervised Learning

• The data are trained without labeling so the machine will pick based on the common characteristic of the data.

Then I will list some rules to be followed by AI when being trained.

Then I will show a video talks about the machine learning time line and how its being used since then.

Now I will show what we are gonna be doing today.

I will discuss with the participant what is coding.

Then I will show a video about coding and how it shapes the AI.

Now we are ready to go step by step to build this day application.

I will explain the basics in order to create the prototype from adding the library and dealing with it but for the way of training please find the following link that shows how to create custom model using Pictoblox. [LINK]

The First step is to add the Face detection library.

Library documentation : [LINK]

Then We need to add the Machine learning library

Library documentation [LINK]

Then follow the steps in the video to how to use the object detection. Adding the objects, labeling the object, then training the object, and finally testing the model.

In the participant case they are not going to train the model they will get to know how, but they will receive the model pre trained from my side to save time and they will only import it.

to import pre trained or ready model.

For the code please find it attached in the attachment section.

At the beginning we will recap the previous 2 days and its important the give the students the opportunity to talk about what they have got.

• Its important to ask questions to grab participant attention.

• Microcontrollers are miniature computers used to do specific tasks.

• Its important to show the participant the variant numbers of MCU’s available
• What makes each MCU unique and different.

At this point I will explain what is the MicroBit MCU and how its different from the others.

• The MicroBit is Arm based microcontroller which makes them small and power efficient so they can be powered using batteries.
• The MicroBit contains 25 LED, speaker, Radio, Bluetooth, 2 Push buttons, Microphone, accelerometer, and more….

Then I will show a video about the capabilities of the Microbit

Then we need to talk about the sensors as a components used to get data from the surrounding to be then fetched to the processor.

Then we need to show the number of sensor this MCU contains.

• This slide shows the sensors and the pins contained.

• This slide shows the number of sensors that we can use in the MCU
• accelerometer, touch sensor, compass, temperature sensor, light intensity sensor, and radio.

Then I will show a video that explain a project built using the MicroBit MCU.

• This project shows a recognition system that trained to recognize the person and act to authorize access or not.

The video is attached to the presentation.

Now We need to explain what we are going to do in this day.

Today we will use the MicroBit MCU, it will be linked with application we created previously; the one we trained to recognize the plastic and the glass.

But this time the microcontroller will be the main controller for the input and the output so we will use the pushbuttons in order to instruct the app when to start recognition and when to test.

Now I will list the steps to link the MicroBit with the pictoblox.

The first step is to choose the board type from the board list.

Then we need to connect it through Bluetooth from the connect list beside board list.

• This step is for both the online

Now for the desktop version.

Now to check the connectivity we can check the beside logo near to connect.

At this point we have the hardware connected and also the library installed for the coding.

• I’m not gonna be explaining the code but it will be attached in the attachment section.