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Mars Rover Dog Coding Camp

$525.00

From Backyard Tricks to Martian Missions

Offered two weeks at the end of the year.

Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Building 3,

Address: 500 Severyns Ave, MOFFETT FIELD, CA 94035

Time: 9AM - 3PM

In this 4-day adventure, students transform Petoi Bittle robotic dogs into Mars explorers. Each day brings a new mission:

Day 1 – First Steps on Mars: Assemble and program your rover dog to take its first walk across Martian terrain.
Day 2 – Avoid the Crater: Use sensors to detect and navigate around obstacles.
Day 3 – Search & Rescue: Teach your rover to recognize objects and find missing “astronauts” or sample tubes.
Day 4 – Mars Colony Challenge: Combine all skills to explore, navigate, and complete a capstone mission in a simulated Mars colony.

Students will learn coding, robotics, and problem-solving while leaving their pawprints on the Red Planet!

week:

From Backyard Tricks to Martian Missions

Offered two weeks at the end of the year.

Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Building 3,

Address: 500 Severyns Ave, MOFFETT FIELD, CA 94035

Time: 9AM - 3PM

In this 4-day adventure, students transform Petoi Bittle robotic dogs into Mars explorers. Each day brings a new mission:

Day 1 – First Steps on Mars: Assemble and program your rover dog to take its first walk across Martian terrain.
Day 2 – Avoid the Crater: Use sensors to detect and navigate around obstacles.
Day 3 – Search & Rescue: Teach your rover to recognize objects and find missing “astronauts” or sample tubes.
Day 4 – Mars Colony Challenge: Combine all skills to explore, navigate, and complete a capstone mission in a simulated Mars colony.

Students will learn coding, robotics, and problem-solving while leaving their pawprints on the Red Planet!

At Mars Rover Dog Coding Camp, students don’t just learn to code — they bring a robotic pet to life on Mars. The camp is powered by Petoi Bittle, a palm-sized quadruped robot dog that walks, trots, sits, and rolls just like a real puppy. Unlike wheeled rovers, Bittle’s four-legged locomotion makes it ideal for exploring uneven “Martian” terrain.

Campers will discover how Bittle’s open-source coding platform lets them program both simple moves and complex behaviors using block coding, Arduino, or Python. With the sensor pack, students turn their rover dog into a true space explorer: ultrasonic sensing helps it avoid craters and rocks, the IMU keeps it balanced on tilted surfaces, and optional AI vision modules let it recognize colors, shapes, or even markers placed around the colony.

Because Bittle comes with a library of pre-programmed “instincts” — from standing up to rolling over — students can build on existing functions to create new missions quickly, focusing on problem-solving rather than starting from scratch. Each robot becomes a personalized Martian pet, complete with a name, a role in the colony, and a story that grows with every challenge.

By the end of camp, students will have experienced robotics from multiple angles — mechanics, sensing, coding, and storytelling — and gained the confidence to see their rover dog not just as a toy, but as a bridge between imagination and real-world engineering.