Robotics
- three day workshop between tech dept and science dept (June 2006)
- link to Lego Logo Web site ... "Tim Lankford"
- we considered assessment, curriculum goals, pedagogical methods, hardware concerns (power & firmware), goals for CP5
- notes in progress
The Robotics Club So Far!
- First Wednesday 9/13 ... "this first day of orientation started with eight girls in the VER ... we then moved to the ACR as 5-10 girls joined us and then moved to room 41 as the girls kept coming in waves ... we showed the RCX brick and everyone did a bit of building"
- Second Wednesday 9/20 ... "we started the unwrapping/unpacking of the 10 robotics kits we had purchased ... the girls were unpackaging the bags and they had to empty the bags into the two trays with buckets ... the goal was to organize the pieces ... the girls worked in teams of three ... we had six teams of three (mostly Class 4, a few Class 5, one Class 6) ... we learned about the vocabulary words of plates (flat lego pieces), the bricks, hubs, wheels, tires, studded technic bricks, belts, motors, Dragon wing, light and touch sensors ..."
- The Third Wednesday 9/27 ... "Class 4 was away on a trip and so the four girls from Class 5 and Class 6 finished the unwrapping"
- The Fourth Wednesday 10/4 ... "the students built their first simple robot that ran across the floor ... no programming yet, just working together to find the right pieces"
- The Fifth Wednesday 10/11 ... "the students added other features to their robots and tested their durability"
- The Sixth Wednesday 10/18 ... "Robolab is the application used to program their robots. the students started to learn the Robolab software and the meaning of different Robolab icons. they wrote their first robot programs in Robolab, downloaded them to their robots and ran them to see how their robots would behave."
- The Seventh Wednesday 10/25 ... "More building!"
- The Eighth Wednesday 11/1 ... "More building!"
- The Ninth Wednesday 11/8 ... "The girls took apart their robots, formed new groups, and began building a new robot."
- Class 5 Robotics Day (to be confirmed): March 12th and 13th ??? (sb)
Pictures
- Click here for the annotated Lego sheet of parts
- Click here for the kit with 820 pieces
- Click here for the bottom tray with the larger parts
- Click here for the top tray with the belts and white hubs
- Click here for a set of bags that went into a bucket (gears, angle connectors)
- Click here for more of the same
- Click here for the tubes
- Click here for the wheels and actual motors
- Click here for big wheels and light sensors
- Click here for smaller pieces with cross axles
- Click here for plates and studded technic bricks
- Click here for random pieces
- Click here for hubs
- Click here for some gears and hubs
- Click here for the book with instructions on how to build the robots ... the book contains 5 different robots that can be built
- Click here for Charles Bell photos on FLICKR
- Click here for Brearley robotics Web pages
Video ... Style #1
one video from 10/4/06 ... click but be patient while it downloads since it is 7 megabytes ;-)Video ... Style #2
Video ... Style #3
Last updated 02.16.07
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