- We packed batteries, chargers, and everything else needed for PARC on Saturday
- Talked about what happened at the FLL demonstration this afternoon
- Discussed ideas for the demo bot
- Received an assignment for everybody to complete
For our demo bot, we have discussed making a Home Protection Personal Robot. All of our ideas for this demo bot are up on the white board, along with the assignment we were given regarding the demo bot.Our assignment was: Bring in a rough copy of a letter to send iRobot asking for an iRobot Create and explaining why we would like one. The iRobot Create will be used for our Home Protection Personal Robot. It is used for the Roomba, the personal vaccuum cleaner that Mr. Weick has been talking about recently. With the iRobot Create, we would be able to put different additions to it and program them to do what we want them to do. Here is a link of the Premium package (has many more things than the basic package does) : http://store.irobot.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2591901&cp=&sr=1&kw=irobot+create&origkw=iRobot+Create&parentPage=searchDo not send the letter you write. Everybody is to bring in a rough draft of the letter on Thursday. From there, Mrs. Danner will give us other instructions for the letters.
The other assignment we received was to look up information about the different sensors we want to put on the demo bot. The information we are looking up is: how they work and how we will use it on our robot. Everybody who was at tonight's meeting was assigned a sensor (excluding Collin who has a reprieve from this assignment only because of AP testing for another week) , with one sensor needing an extra person. We would like more than just 2 people on each sensor, so please step up and help find information about these sensors.
Motion sensor: Sammy and Mark
Smoke detector: Shannon and ??
Carbon Monoxide detector: Mikey and Billy
Some useful websites for this assignment: sparkfun.com and parallax.comNow for information about the FLL demonstration this afternoon:We had 4 students (Ally, Sammy, Collin, and Rachel) attend the FLL demonstration along with Mrs. George. Ally, Rachel, and Mrs. George got to see the FLL team show off their robot and their skit. Sammy and Collin did not because they were late getting to the school. After telling the FLL students about the robot, we then took them and Sammy Su into the cafeteria to give them a demo of Sammy Su and to let them test her out. Collin and Sammy showed them the robot and how it worked, and then in pairs of two, helped them drive the robot and pick up balls. We did have a snag this afternoon about half way through the demonstration while two of the FLL students were driving the robot. Our pick-up mechanism stopped working right, so we started throwing the balls into the holder so the students could still try out the dumping. We have gotten together as many things as we could to hopefully fix the problem Saturday morning.
Everybody attending PARC: Don't forget, we are all meeting at SCC at 5:15 AM in jeans (not hole-y, ripped up jeans) and your new shiney shirt. We do NOT want to see any underwear please! So if that means you have to wear a belt, please do. We beg of you. :)Drive team has not been decided yet. Mr. Weick and Mr. Don are deciding who is drive team. Make sure to bring money for lunch and for a pit stop on the way home. iPods and sleep are allowed on the way to and from. We should be getting home between about 8 and 10. Everybody should have gotten an email from Mrs. Danner about which car they will be riding into. She said that any changes in cars are allowed, she just doesn't want to know about them. Just make sure that the person you are switching with is ok with it please.
I apologize for such a long review. Hope everybody had a nice day! :)
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