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Objectives
Objectives
During the second week of the COSMOS Cluster 2 on Engineering Design and Control of Kinetic Sculptures, our team members learned how to program using RobotC to process sensor data and to control a motor in a Motion Robot. The concepts of automatic sensor data processing and controlling the motion of a component in a Kinetic Sculpture led to the design requirements of a Mini Sculpture. The Mini Sculpture design is a team effort that is completed during the third week of the COSMOS Cluster 2.
Design Requirements
Design Requirements
For this project, we were required to have a motor automatically controlled by the measurements of a sensor. Then we were also required to have a human interface control that would affect the game.
In our Mini-Sculpture, in order to fulfill these requirements we included a light sensor, which causes the motor spinning the wheel to change direction. In order to fulfill the human interface requirement, we included a touch sensor that overrides the light sensor, as the person touches the button the wheel changes direction.
Design Choice
Design Choice
For our design concepts, we tried many different ideas. Our best ideas were to do a wheel that spins back and forth and switches which track the marble will roll down on. This worked the best because it met all of the requirements. And the human interface was that the user could pick which direction the ball went.
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