We have been working hard in our Makerspace on our Robots challenge.
The Challenge is to create a model Robot with elements of, Movement, Electricity & Coding.
The class has done an amazing job with lots of fun and failure. I’ve been especially impressed how the groups worked together and adapted their ideas as the went along.
Bobara
Duck
Robot Mike
ECCO Finished product
A.D.A.M
I gathered quite a lot of quotes from the class and have added some below in their unedited glory.
General Comments
- His back there is a skewer that you twist so that tightens the rope to make the flaps go up and loosen it to go down
- It is a micro bit that plays a song by another micro bit sending it messages to start and stop
- We had to change the song a few thousand times but we got there in the end.
- We argued about the wheels and some designs but we didn’t argue much. The wheels worked out well and the coding component is working well too.
- Yes when we were cutting our blocks of wood to hold up a big platform. The blocks where slanted so we had to make new ones and measure it correctly so it was in a straight line.
- We didn’t think of how the weight of the head was going to affect the motor. This was because the head was too large. Also we painted some of it and changed a lot of the outer design and make the packages more realistic by putting things in them.
- It’s moving part is the spinning brush on the front, a motor is hooked up to a battery pack and a switch using wires, when the switch is clicked the motor turns a piece of glue tack spins and the brush is attached to it.
- My robot is a large Aztec sort of style robot called A.D.A.M. A.D.A.M stands for Ancient Dispenser of Aztec Mummies. As the name suggests it dispenses drawings of mummies.
- It is called Adam it is like a box and it has wheels dispense mummies
Enjoyed
- I enjoyed working with others and learning how different things work.
- I really enjoyed be able to express my creativity
- Being partners with the people I was and painting and talking to them.
- I enjoyed creative work and doing fun things with saws and hot glue guns
- I enjoyed making a lot of the things we made and I think I work well in most of the groups I was put in.
- I enjoyed working with the micro bits and coding elements.
- I enjoyed using different equipment like hot glue guns.
Didn’t enjoy
- I didn’t enjoy the we had a problem with the electronics
- I didn’t enjoy all the arguing but then again it was mostly needed because of voting.
- I didn’t enjoy the problem with the wheels and trying to fix that because it took a while to find a solution.
- I enjoyed everything about the makerspace, and didn’t dislike anything.
Learned
- I learned that it’s sometimes people need to learn to try help each other more then we should.
- I learned how to put the movie into keynote and I learned how to do wiring.
- I learned how to work with others better and how to make different things, I feel like I’m better at arts and crafts as well.
- I learned that wires were very complicated and annoying and that you may not be friends with your partners but you can get along in some ways.
- I learned how to use glue guns, what materials are better and not just look better and how to find good solutions to problems but still keep close to the original design.
- I learned how to use micro bits to control motors.
- I learned how to use a saw correctly and I learned how to use a hot glue gun.
- How to have fun and work at the same time while being in my zone.
- How to make a iMovie video with voice over music and effects and to work in a team to create a machine with electronic components.
- I learned that you can make anything out of quite a lot of materials and I learned that using iMovie is quite easy.
