8p2 - Robots

my list of 25

make a course for the robot
make it spin around
make it fight another robot
make it talk
make it do a flip
make it speedy
make it jump of a ramp
make it randomly zoom around the room
make it push a button
make it pull a lever
make it open a door
make it close a door
make it dance
make it throw things
make it carry stuff
make it carry stuff to a place
make it take stuff to me
give it a little suit and make a robot waiter
make it climb stairs (can they do that?)
make it chop stuff
make it a ninja robot
make it get mail out of a mailbox
make it get the remote
make it turn things
make it count moneys

In this project I mostly worked by myself, however I need Brennan take the final product video.

I need a I-pad, a object to pick up, a robot, Legos, a weight, some stuff to hold the object, and a place to put the object in.

I plan to modify a robot to be able to move objects.

my projects unique qualities are that I'm working on making something do a task it was not made to do by creating a modification.

Day one was spent trying to make the robot lift something, however I had trouble getting it to lift because the robots head was not meant to lift weight. Also I was new to robots so learning to control it was difficult. Also the Legos kept falling apart, but it was progress.

By the second day of working I fixed the problems of the previous model, I strengthened the Legos (by adding more Legos) I learned how to drive the robot, and added a counter weight so the robot would have the strength to lift an object. I think I did a pretty good job in this project and figured out how to modify robots.

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Using robots, Legos an I-pad and a weight , I created a robot capable of lifting and moving objects because I think it's a good project idea as today where seeing lots of robots designed to do just that by mail delivery company's that use them to, obviously, deliver mail.

During this process, I learned how much little intricate details matter when creating something, like when I was putting on the weight I had to put in just the right area, otherwise it would be to heavy in the back and it couldn't move downward or there wasn't enough weight and it couldn't lift anything, anyway this shows how much the tiny details make a project work.

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 empowered learner, knowledge constructer, and innovative designer because I had to figure out how to do this myself (empowered learner) by taking what I know about similar things (knowledge constructer) to design my own version of a machine that is currently being worked on by multiple companies (innovative designers) to complete the task I gave myself for this project.

A challenge I overcame on this project was getting the robot to lift an object, the robot I was working on was not made to move anything move than itself. I was able to do it by adding a counterweight to the robot, which applied enough force for the robot to be able to lift small objects with relative ease.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change my weight. The reason why I would change it is because it was a bit heavier that I needed and didn't easily fit with the logo's I used to make the lifting arm things for the robot.

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 engineering design CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in robot creation, eBay, maybe Amazon, any company that uses robots to deliver things.

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