Robotics project

Questions:

What are robots?

Why are they cool? What ways do people used robots creatively?

How can robots help people?

How can a robot help you?

Can robots solve problems for humans?

Will robots take over and become our overlords?

First a little background...

For Homework: watch this video below and come prepared to discuss/write about it.

Engineering process

  1. Define Problem

  2. Do research

  3. Develop a possible solution

  4. Design your solution

  5. Build a prototype

  6. Test Test Test

  7. Evaluate your solution

Robotics Project instruction outline:

  1. Make a robotics project page with your partner (1 per group) Do this EASILY by duplicating the Robotics template page and renaming it. *Paste any links that you found helpful for learning how to use the robots/inspiration for your plan.

  2. Figure out how to use/program your robots. Test drive it around or try to assemble components to get a feel for them. explore the apps that control them. find some helpful videos that will teach you how to use/program these bots (Paste those links into your project page for references as well)

  3. Use the engineering process above to make a prototype of a robot that solves a problem and helps humans in some way. Document your process from the design and ideas to the building and testing and even the failures along the way.

  4. At the end of the project, we will meet up with other groups and present to each other on how it went etc. Then reflect and write in your project page using the reflection guidelines and rubrics.

If you have SAM labs bots:

  1. Explore first. Build a car and code a system to drive it with the app. this will help you test out the app and learn some of the pieces..

If you have a Cue Robot:

  1. Explore first. Try the Robots out and see how their app and interface work.

  2. Think of games as a way to tweak into problem solving ex. Code the robot to knock down the pins could it knock down something else?

Some Ideas

  1. Make a snowplow attachment from found materials, program it to sweep up paper or trash "snow".

  2. Attach markers to your cue and Program it to draw shapes. Circle, square and triangles. Use big poster paper.

  3. Code the Cue robot to draw Mandalas. The step-by-step lesson is here Gripper for lego

  4. Can you turn your Cue robot into a magic 8 ball, using the "random" coding function? You might get some ideas here

  5. Can you program it to be autonomous? here's a tutorial

Looking for some attachments to tinker and 3d print with. here are some pieces that will fit into the sides of the CUE here

Hook and ring attachment Files for printing. Different Lego arm attachment

Need connectors for Lego to attach lego stuff to your cue?

Here is a 3d file of an arm to add stuff to on the Cuebot


Boxer Robots:

Boxer home page for resources and info

can you use the existing games they are programmed to do but hack or modify them to be useful to humans in some way, or can we operate boxer manually to assist humans,