Presentation
This week's presentation (Thursday) is located here. No presentation from Wednesday.
Outline
On Wednesday, the kids worked on the exercises in Chapters 5, 6, and 7. They didn't get as far as I hoped. To keep us on track, I demoed the touch sensor and the color sensor.
On Thursday, we voted for our t-shirt design, and Ms. Norwood worked with the students on the project. The team did to fun team building activities.
Homework
Write down 5 or more ideas about the mission you volunteered to work on.
Joshua/Gavin - Building with Brackets
Kenny/Camden - Power Station
Beth/Makayla - Flip Car
Luke/Jacob - Sorter
Zoey/Johnny - Composter
Come up with 2-3 piece of trash you think we can save from the landfill and how.
What's Next
Begin work on robot design and mission solutions.
Pick the piece of trash for the project.
T-Shirt Winner
The t-shirt winner is the upper left picture in the collage. We need a better team name than simply the Vance Panthers...
Behind the Scenes
I am reading the book Winning Design!: Lego Mindstorms NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition. I put together the book's demobot today. It was frustrating because the EV3 Large Servo Motors are shaped differently. I finally figured out a way around it.
This robot drifts 1-2 inches to the right across the FLL table. I'm not sure why.
I created the motor matching machine, also from the book, and found our large servo motors to be evenly matched.
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