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This is the site to find all the Mechatronics Robot Club projects... This site is for the "In Class" robot club and the official extracurricular "SVCTE Robot Club". What's the difference?
In Class Robot Club - This is robotics activities and projects that are part of my SVCTE Mechatronics class. Typically we will have 1 -2 hours of time, in class to work on "Mechatronics Engineering Robot Club" projects. These don't necessarily have to be part of the extracurricular SVCTE Robot Club. They can be, but don't have to be. Mostly they will just be robotics project that you are doing as part of my class, where you will get graded as part of my class. Manny of these projects are listed below.
SVCTE Robot Club - This the real extracurricular Robot Club. This is the part of the club where all the projects are focused on competitions. In this part of the club, students will not only be participation in the "In Class Robot Club", but they will be competing after school and on some weekends. Students who participate at this level will need to be commuted to the competition and their teams.
If it's a project that is more than a few days of work, if should be listed and have an "Official" project Google Doc page
Open Lab "Engineering Notebook" - This is where EVERY STUDENT is expected to post what they did during Open lab. If you don't post here on the day of the Open Lab, then you will not receive the full points. See the Open Lab Rubric Instructions for full explanation of points. Depending on what you worked on, you or your team mates could be filling out Your personal Engineering Notebook, or a Project specific Engineering Notebook Google Doc.
Please let me know if you don't have author privileges to your "Official" Robotic Club Project Engineering Notebook.
If you are working your official Robot Club Project, then you will post your updates to the Project Engineering Notebook page, but you will ALSO, put 2-3 descriptive lines in your Personal Engineering Notebook. Check out the Open Lab Rubric to make sure you understand how the points are awarded. You may be filling out 2 blogs to get all the points.
Looking for a new project? Check out one of these, on the Projects That Need A Team page
Engineering Notebook & Robot Club Project Links <-- This is where student projects are documented
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Important Dates:
Pre-regionals - Dec (before Break)
Regionals - Jan/Feb
State - April (Spring Break)
Nationals - July?
Differential Drive Rovers - These are a mix or different classroom rovers. The DIY Robo Cars/Rovers will tend to be ones that follow the DIY/Donkey car build method. Many of the other Rover types will also be DIY Rovers, but will have their own specific characteristics and have their own project data
We are using our Robot platforms in the a few competitions. This page is a jumping off point to learn about these Rovers, and will have specific general Rover topics. Specific Rover types will have their own pages.
While there is a focus on the DIY Donkey Cars, this page will focus on all DIY R/C cars as well as our Differential drive robots... Big or Small
Large (Arcadia Farming Bots) Differential Drive Bot Projects