Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Designing a robot.
To build a standard robot or customize?
If you and your team are new to Lego Robot building, the answer is easy, "build a standard robot right out of the book". Kids should be able to follow the step by step instructions for the tractor robot. With a little help from parents/coaches to find parts and maybe to slip on the tractors without popping a gear. Or worse, torquing the robot to the point it explodes. ARRRRRRGGGGG!!!! Fortunately that has not happened to me...LOL. But, I have dropped the robot. I digress.
For the most advanced teams.... The kids or the coaches can come up with an idea... a design of what the robot should look like. If the coach/parent has the idea, a rough sketch can be given to the kids to put it together. Detail sketches can be provided as the kids work on it. This is usually necessary when the build has hit a roadblock.
I sometimes have my team tear down the robot and rebuild it; Assigning different parts to each of them. It keeps them busy and gets them familiar with the robot's design.
Now... I want to hear from the teams... a quick post of how your build has gone or a snap shot of your team with the robot.
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Thanks for sharing, Tomas. Our team is new but I think the kids are having fun with building their dream machines...as their dreams are all different, you know, the machine is still under construction now LOL...I would like to ask if you can share some sample codes with us, or share some resources sites, so we can have some ideas about how the robot should be programmed if we like it to be able to do sth. for example, to detect a different ground color(the one you showed us in the last class), to detect an object and lift it up, to response to voice(if it can)...etc....some basic tasks like left turn, right turn are useful too.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot.
Legorologist Team