News Feed: Week 6

Last week we decided to design a similar project to one of the Engineering 102 projects from last term.  This week we picked up the wall with flashing colors and lights for our project. With this wall we can now proceed to attach an arm and sensors to the robot. We also decided which sensors we would like to use in this project. We chose the color sensor to decide whether or not a button should be pressed and either the ultrasonic sensor or the light sensor to stay parallel to the wall.There is a key difference in which our robot will not have to turn because we feel that the sharp turn would be too difficult for the kids to successfully execute.

basically our group is building up a robot model that is similar to the one in the video below, except that ours should be simpler since its for a different age group (1st - 4th graders)