Robotics Cali, Shelby, Michelle, Taylor, Michaela, Jackson, Michael, Martin, Genesis, Tanairy, Justin, Felix, Jose, Trevor, Paul, Omar, Jason, Owen, Amani, Laneyre, and Mrs.Cost

Things we do in class Learned the Engineering Design Process Windmill kit Sea Perch Snap circuits SolidWorks Designing our own robot arm iRobot assembly Vex robots

Steps of the Engineering Design Process Step 1. Identify the need or problem Step 2. Research the need or problem Step 3. Develop possible solutions Step 4. Select the best solution(s) Step 5. Construct a prototype

Steps of the Engineering Design Process (cont.) Step 6. Test and evaluate the solution(s) Step 7. Communicate the solution(s) Step 8. Redesign and reevaluate And these steps start all over again, the cycle of engineering

What I Learned in Robotics Felix Martinez

Reverse Engineer a Circuit My group and I reverse engineered and rebuilt a control circuit for an Underwater ROV

Using Solid Works Presented by Taylor Tierney

Solid Works You can design parts Then you can assemble the parts into one object

Getting Starting

Basic Builds

Cutting into Parts

Adding Color

Rotation

Rotating

Assembly

Robotics By: Shelby McKay

We have learned… Engineering Design process Electrical circuits

Robots We can build them in anyway we want. We test them out. We fix them. Then we compete.

Snap Circuits Educational electronics kits that provide reusable, circuit parts that snap together. Can do many sounds »Police siren »Laser gun »Space war »Bomb »Water space war »Human space war

What the instruction booklet looked like…

One of the many ways it could look like…

Programming *Connect the USB cable to Cortex -Hold configure button until the cable is also plugged into to computer *Download Vexnet Firmware *(Do the same for the Joystick)* *Power both on, then off *Plug in the wireless Key (flash drive) to the Joystick and Cortex *Power them both on

How To Build a Robot The Vex Clawbot Assisted in the final phases of building the clawbot. Underwater ROV

Building process We started working on smaller robots replace parts as needed. Then we moved on to the vex robot kit and started building. Now we have a better idea what we had to do to correctly build our robot.

VEX Claw Bot Claw machine: Fun to build There was some fixing that we had to do Followed the directions to build it It took only 4 class periods

Vex robotics Vex robotics was the type of robot we built. Vex robotics was the type of robot we built. The pieces in vex robotics are screws, bolts, and nuts connecting all pieces of the robot together. The pieces in vex robotics are screws, bolts, and nuts connecting all pieces of the robot together. The robots were designed to be used in sack attack, a competition game that uses bean bags to gain scores in teams of two. The robots were designed to be used in sack attack, a competition game that uses bean bags to gain scores in teams of two.

Vex robot design. There are two types of robot designs used in this class. There was the clawbot that uses a claw to get sacks and move into goals The other robot was made to have a small claw to grab the sacks in sack attack to gain points a small claw to grab the sacks in sack attack to gain points We redesigned the robot with extras added on to make it control better or to get more points in sack attack. We redesigned the robot with extras added on to make it control better or to get more points in sack attack.

Field Trip Where we went? Worchester Massachusetts QCC (college) What we did? Vex competition How the day works? 3 teams 6 matches for each team

Field trip cont. How the games were set up? random drawings The repairs we did? any loose parts need to be tighten The fun we had on the bus/tournament? singing, jamming, breaking and fixing robots.