During the fourth and last week of the COSMOS Cluster 2 on Engineering Design and Control of Kinetic Sculptures, our team has to integrate the Mini Sculpture concept(s) into a working Full Kinetic Sculpture. Lessons learned during the prototyping of the Mini Sculpture are now applied to ensure the Full Sculpture operates autonomously and is robust to any design or programming errors found during the Mini Sculpture design.
The criteria for the full sculpture required the use of our mini sculpture concept, a chain link elevator, at least one human user interface, all programmed by NXT LEGO block(s). This new project also needed to be able to function completely autonomously with no error, continuously looping via the elevator. Unlike the mini sculpture, we were not limited to one motor and NXT block so we incorporated two NXT blocks, five motors, and five sensors into our full sculpture. Our team kept the idea of a mini golf game from our previous design, additionally adding two color sensors, and a catapult.