News Feed: Week 9

During this week of engineering lab, we've accomplished many things. The robot is pretty much finalized and is working the way it was planned. The only thing that it needs work on is the touching of the buttons, but that can be fixed fairly easily. The manual is still being worked on and will be finished before the final week of engineering labs. The final report and presentation is also being worked on. We wanted to show our audience what we've been actually working on and on top of this post is a video that exemplifies that. As you can see, that is the basic function of the robot and we're expecting elementary students to build and program that exact same robot in an elementary classroom with ease as long as they have the lab manual with them.

News Feed: Week 8

During this week of engineering lab, we got a finalized idea of how we're going to go along with the robot arm approach. We have the code already complete and all we need to do is test it before week 9. If it doesn't work, then additional tweaks might be required. The light sensor was already tested and it ran successfully. The color sensor also worked separately from the entire code. We're assuming the entire code will work according to the results we obtained from operating them separately. The manual for the experiment for the children is being written according to the programming. The manual still needs a bunch of work and we're assuming it is going to be composed of four parts: The building of the body, The building of the arm, The functions of the sensors, and The programming. With these categories we're assuming children would be able to conduct this experiment by themselves.