7P5- Robot Project

Daily log

Day 1.  Started website and started our catapult.

Day 2. Today we finished our catapult so tomorrow we can  do a new project

Day 3.  Ben and I started the iRobot project and got half way . 

Day 4. We finished our iRobot and started the mini sphere.

 Day 5. Today we almost finished the mini sphere. We made a square, triangle. and rectangle.

Day 6. Ben, Harry, and I finished the mini sphere and Ben, Mya and I started the bolt.

Day 7. Ben,  Mya and I figured out how to make bolt jump and we got our countdown.

Day 8. Mya, Ben, and I  finished bolt and now I have done all four so Monday I will make my  own challenge.

Day 9.  We  Started our challenge but we ran out of time.

Day 10.  We finished our project  but Ben messed up the video and we had to record it again and then I finished my  website page.

• Using  iPad, Sphero mini, Bolt, Dash, iRobot, Sphero play, Sphero edu, Legos, and Go,  I created a Dash catapult that runs forwards and throws a tire then after that we did a iRobot word code and we used the word FEET. Also with that we created these two thing we made sphero mini drive these shapes square, rectangle, triangle,  and a trapezoid, and then we used bolt to  make a party bomb that jumps and flashes colors lastly for our create your own challenge we did slingshot bowling with sphero mini. We did these projects so we can get better at coding.  

• During this process, I learned  that this coding was a lot easier than the microbit project I have  done. I feel this because the code I did for the microbit took hours because it was very complex. I think another thing I learned was how to get the sphero's to move because they are a little harder than the others because they don't always go the way you think.

• The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to an  Empowered learner because I set a goal to get all the projects and extra credits done and I achieved it.  It also ties into Computational Thinker because our strategies for some over the codes was to do the same code for the other part and just tweak it.

• A challenge I overcame on this project was how to get our spheros to turn in the direction it needed to. I was able to do it by figuring out the first turn then think what degree would it need to turn next. I think another thing I overcame was how to fix the mistake in our code. We did this by looking at what was the code that messed with it and trying to adjust it a bit.

• Given a chance to do this again, I would change the catapult for the dash. The reason why I would change it is because the one we made didn't throw it that far and it was a little heavy. I would also change our challenge we did the reason is because we didn't have a lot of time so we just thought of something simple and easy.  

• Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing.  My project connects to the Computer Programming CTE program at Hastings High School.  My project connects to careers in Robot Programmer.