First, you will need to log in using username: newmedialiteracies and password: newmedialiteracies. Then, check out the following example of the kind of walking robot you are going to create in this activity. After you clicked on the link, click on LAUNCH Funnywalker and sellect OPEN with JAVA WEb Start in the little window that pop ups. You can play with this robot and modify the different parameters to see how it behaves. You can let the window of this example open when while you create your new one or you can close it.
http://sodaplay.com/creators/lombana/items/funnywalker