Connecting Minds with Technology for a Better World
This meeting coming up on Saturday, we'll work more on our obstacle avoiding robot. We can also use the same concepts to turn it into an obstacle detecting sumo bot! We'll also work on programming the robot in C rather than in JavaScript. Here's a video using the newest bot design:
We had a great time at our last electronics meeting finishing up and testing out our Sumobots! Here's a short video of two in action!
Besides it having a cool name, I think it's very cool tech and something we could totally build in our club. It would be awesome if we could attach a workload to it...something like a water wheel to it to lift water up to some height and then feed, say, a small aquaponic garden....
Great Article from Comstock's Magazine about PodPi, the curriculum that we are primarily using for our electronics track:
http://www.comstocksmag.com/web-only/can-comic-book-teach-children-about-stem
Something we are working on for our next meeting.... I think it needs eyes that light up...
Neo, Emily and I built this following instructions from a special edition of Make:. We're going to build it at our next club meeting!
https://youtu.be/6umtQcop2kU
Hi Club Members!
This is one way to build the replacement gauge for Servo's Dashboard.
Please ensure that you have the appropriate materials before you start this challenge. Materials such as: Scissors, x acto knife, glue/cement, some cardboard or plastic and either some colored pens/pencils or a color printer and some software will be helpful. I used Microsoft Excel and a color printer for this, but you can use anything you like!
https://youtu.be/RABGaFkCg90
The sensing temperature experiment is pretty fun. The 1k thermistor is the larger of the two packages, in case you were wondering.
So, were you able to make a solution for changing the color of an RGB LED when you squeeze the thermistor to warm it up?
I'd like to see it. Here's the solution I came up with:
To me, this is a particularly amazing and useful tool for electronics enthusiasts.
Here's a quick overview: