Jacobucci- Robotics-Period 7 Monday Assignments

In class: complete challenges 1 & 2 (view separate posts). 


Homework:  Using the link below, watch the Mars rover Perseverance images and videos. Answer questions on google doc and be prepared to discuss in class next week.

Show Mars rover Perseverance images and videos

In-person students:
Build: Students finish building their EV3 driving base
-show that you can program your robot and drive a square. 


no homework, (ignore the Mar's ws blow, you will do it next week)

Happy snow day!
Share a copy of your drawing program with me.
No assignment today.
Homework: build a basic driving robot, we will be using them after spring break.
Have a great spring break and a fun snow day, go out and play in the snow

share your robots with legs.
This week you will design, build, and program a robot that draws a pattern, performs the task accurately, and is able to repeat the task.
Think about:
What kind of motorized mechanism holds a pen or pencil?
What kind of motorized mechanism can move the pen into more than two locations?
How can the robot’s movements be accurate and repeatable?

Before class next week, upload a video of your robot drawing a pattern. I will share the videos during class.

Try building a walking robot using one of the building instructions below.

One more week of asynchronous classes, I will be back tomorrow so we will start synchronous classes next week.
Design, build and program a robot that moves 1 meter on a level surface without wheels of any kind. It can hobble, crawl, wiggle or flip, but it cannot use anything that resembles wheels (no using tracks or gears as wheels).
Watch the TedTalk video for examples of how robots can move without wheels.
Use at least one motor.
Be prepared to show your robot during class next week or share a video of it on the class google slideshow.
Complete the analysis sheet.
Just like before, add a slide to the shared side presentation, so we can all see what you are doing. Add a photo and a description.

Remember I am not in town this week, so no synchronous classes. If you need help, send me message. We can meet over webex if you need help.
This activity will take two weeks to complete.
Design, build, and program a robot that can move up the steepest incline possible.
Week1- Design, build and program your first design, record results and take a picture of your robot. (Add picture and a brief description of your results in the shared google slide.)
Week2- Improve on your design and programming. Take a picture of your final design. (again, take new pictures and briefly describe results and any modifications to the google slide- so you will add a second page to the google slide presentation)

Materials:
-EV3 kit
-You’ll need a one meter-long BOARD or foam board to construct the ramp(be creative- look around your house to see what you could possibly make into a ramp); and books, blocks, or other objects to adjust the incline.
-Use a PROTRACTOR to measure the incline in degrees, or a measuring tape to measure the incline by rise over run.

-Design, build, and program a robot that can move up the steepest slope possible.
-Create an incline using a board that is about 1 meter in length. Prop one end of the board up on a stack of books or a chair.
-Drive the robot up the full length of the board
-Increase the incline on the slope until the robot can no longer drive all the way up.
-Record the angle of the incline in degrees by using a protractor or by using a measuring tape to measure the incline by rise over run.

Complete your driving up a slope challenge from last week. Turn in your work last weeks assignment.

Challenge:
-Design, Build, and program something using the bevel gears.
-It can be an attachment, like a claw or you can use the building instructions to create a vehicle.
-Post a description AND a photo or video of your creation to the class google slideshow.

Teacher-Classwork
Discuss last week's homework, Gears:
-each student briefly shares the 5th gear configuration they made.

What happens to the turning direction when two gears are meshed together? 3 gears?
How’s the gear ratio related to the number of teeth on the gears?

Start new discussion on shifting gears:
-In which situation is it useful to shift gears up or down?
-It’s difficult to travel uphill or against the wind on a bike. A good gear system is useful in adjusting the power needed to keep moving. When traveling across level ground, you start off in a low gear and then shift into higher gears at higher speeds.

Homework:
This week you will build and program a geared vehicle.
-Follow the building instructions to create your geared vehicle (you do not need to attach the ultrasonic sensor)
-watch the video to understand how to program and run your experiment
-perform the experiment at least 2 times for each of the suggested gear trains (different gear trains are shown at the end of the building instructions).
-record the average result for each gear train in the table on your analysis sheet.
- analyze how gear ratio relates to the distance traveled and velocity of the vehicle.

Classwork:
Share and discuss obstacle course final project challenge

Are you familiar with any machines that use gears?
Introduce gears- show gearing up and down video
Show models of gears.

Homework:
--build gear box using building instructions in the link below.
-watch EV3 gear ratios video
-modify gears and record results in Testing Table sheet
-create a 5th gear configuration which you will show during class next week

Hopefully now everyone has a basic understanding of how to program the EV3 to drive, turn, and react to sensors. Next, you are going to create a maze/obstacle course for your EV3.
Part 1, you will create a maze and program your EV3 to stay on course using the color sensor. Part 2, you will learn to create an attachment using the medium motor that is capable of moving objects. Part 3 & 4, you will add obstacles to your maze that must be moved using an attachment you created and programmed. You could choose a fun theme, like "Jurassic Park" or "Mars Station".

If you are new to robotics, please keep it very simple and only use 2 sensors (one controls the steering motors, one controlling the attachment). Only add more sensors if you know how to program multiple sensors controlling the same motor.
Each week, add a video or picture of your progress to the class google slideshow. We will discuss our progress and troubleshoot problems during class.

Part 1 -Due December 7
-Create a maze using 2 sheets of 22"x28" poster board taped together for a total size of 44"x28".
-Create a maze using black electoral tape or blue painter's tape. Or it could have a dark background with white tape. Keep the maze fairly simple because you will be adding obstacles later.
-Create a theme for your course. (Minecraft, City Streets, Alien World, Dog Park, Football, etc)
-Program your EV3 to navigate the maze using the color sensor.

Part 2- Due To be determined during semester 2
-Build an attachment for your driving base that can move an object. Building instructions for a gripper or a cargo arm are below.
-Practice programming your attachment using an additional sensor that detects the object.

Parts 3 and 4 -Due To be determined during semester 2
-Continue to make your maze more complicated by adding obstacles that must be moved using the the attachment.
-Create "rooms" where the obstacles need to be moved to.
- Program your EV3 to navigate the course.

Review how everyone's obstacle course challenge is going.
Work on programming the robots.

1. Follow the second half of the "Use" tutorial: Add Ultrasonic Sensor to Your Driving Base; and Detect an Object. Download the program to your EV3. Try programming the EV3 to stop when it detects an object less than 10 cm. away. Then try to create a program in a loop that will drive until it detects an object, back up a little, then turn and keep driving until it detects another object. Watch the ultrasonic video below for a demonstration.
2. Review the color sensor tutorials you did with the virtual simulation in makecode, and experiment with running those programs on your EV3.
3. Program your EV3 to follow a line and create a line for it to follow. Black electrical tape works best, or you can use blue tape on the floor or a large piece of cardboard. It works best if you have high contrast between the line and the floor. Watch the video below to see how I adjusted the light intensity value in my program to work for different surfaces. I also show how I use the port view on the EV3 display to determine what value the color sensor is detecting.
4. Record a video of your EV3 completing the line-following challenge and submit it to google classroom before class starts. We will watch and discuss during class next week.

Week 14: add pictures of your programming and videos of you robot doing each of the 4 challenges. (square, back and forth, line follow, and the ultrasonic sensor).
If you are having problems post your problems so we can help each other out.
Hw: For next week you will need two pieces of poster board (foam board) and then tape in an opposite color.

Hope you enjoyed your snow day. Hopefully you unpacked and organized your robot kit. (don't forget to post a picture of it for me to see)
Here is a your first challenge for your robot.
This week you will follow the tutorial in makecode to build a driving base, then program your robot to drive straight and turn. You will try your first challenge- driving your robot in a square.

1-Complete the first 3 sections of the "Use" tutorial: Build driving base; Make it move; Make it turn.
2-Watch the video showing the Baseball challenge.
3-Look at the baseball challenge PDF
4-Complete the baseball challenge activity sheet and submit

This week, you will be able to check out an EV3 kit from Apex after you complete the following:
Watch the ev3kits video showing how to organize your kit pieces.
Read the EV3 Guidelines with an adult in your house.

You cannot pick up your kit until you agree to the guidelines.
This week you will do the following to begin learning how to use your EV3 robotic kit:
-watch unboxing video.
-Fill out the google form.
-organize your kit pieces and UPLOAD A PHOTO OF YOUR ORGANIZED KIT HERE IN GOOGLE CLASSROOMS.
-in makecode.mindstorms.com, complete the tutorial under "getting started" -"try" (link below) Here you will learn to download programs onto your brick and connect/program your sensors. If you have trouble completing the tutorial, go to "TROUBLESHOOTING" in the left-hand column of the tutorial.

This week you will do the following to begin learning how to use your EV3 robotic kit:
-watch unboxing video and complete googleform posted last week.
-pick up EV3 kit from Apex
-organize your kit pieces and UPLOAD A PHOTO OF YOUR ORGANIZED KIT HERE IN GOOGLE CLASSROOMS.
-in makecode.mindstorms.com, complete the tutorial under "getting started" -"try" (link below) Here you will learn to download programs onto your brick and connect/program your sensors. If you have trouble completing the tutorial, go to "TROUBLESHOOTING" in the left-hand column of the tutorial.

We are continuing to learn about robots in action. This week we will watch a video and complete the google doc, answering questions about how robots are used in production and in safety and security applications.

Production Robots:
Robots are used to assemble, disassemble and form materials to create usable products.


Safety and Security Robots:
Robots move in hazardous places and monitor vehicles, homes and other environments for dangerous conditions.

Watch this video showing examples of medical and personal robots and then answer the questions on the google doc

This week we will be reviewing how you can make a robot move (using the motors)
Open the Lego mindstorm simulator (I have added the link to the resources section in google classroom)
Open the EV3 Motors tutorial worksheet.
Complete the worksheet as you work your way through the motor tutorials.

This week you will be completing the EV3 tutorials for the light sensors.
Be sure to fill out the worksheet as you do the tutorials.

This week we will begin learning to program the EV3 robots, so that once we are all back together we jump right in and start building.
1. click on the link below, for Microsoft Makecode
2. create an account, its free, It will help you save your work. Use your school email and a password you can remember. Write down your password someplace safe.
3. scroll down to Explore Makecode, then go to Start Coding, click on "View Makecode online editors"
4. scroll down to Lego Mindstorm Education EV3 (it will be a big yellow box)- click it.
5. this week we will be completing the Brick tutorials. Fill in the Brick tutorial Ws as you complete each tutorial.
a. Wake up
b. Make an animation
c. What animal am I?
d. Music brick
e. Pause on stop
Note: we will not be downloading the programs to the bricks at this point, Just use the simulator to see how it works.
Over the next few weeks we will be completing the motor tutorial, the touch sensor tutorial, the color sensor tutorial, ultrasonic sensor tutorial, and the gyro tutorial.

Hope you have a good labor day. No synchronous classes this week. Remember that you still have an assignment this week that is due next Monday.
This week we will be looking at the role robots play in fiction.
1. View power point of the history of robots.
2. View list of fictional robots. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorized by medium. It includes all depictions of robots and androids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media. It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history.
3.Complete the Robot in Fiction WS.

10 second quick share of robot drawings.
So what really is a Robot?
1.Definition: "A mechanical device that is capable of performing a variety of tasks on command or according to instructions programmed in advance." Compare how student ideas and drawings fit with this definition.
2. Watch the Engineering for the Red Planet QuickTime Video.
3. Watch Lego Robots League. Discuss how the Lego robot and the Mars rover may fit the definition of a robot.
4. Explore a Mars rover in detail using the Anatomy of a Rover Flash Interactive. As they examine the rover, they should observe the different types of tasks it is capable of performing. (Viewing this resource requires enabling the Adobe Flash player in your browser.)
5. Watch the RoboSnail QuickTime Video and the Robofly QuickTime Video, and the Kismet QuickTime Video.
6.What is a Robot? Wrap up (This is what you will turn in). Open the google doc WS ( you can write directly on this page). Answer the questions.

10 second quick share of robot drawings.
So what really is a Robot?
1.Definition: "A mechanical device that is capable of performing a variety of tasks on command or according to instructions programmed in advance." Compare how student ideas and drawings fit with this definition.
2. Watch the Engineering for the Red Planet QuickTime Video.
3. Watch Lego Robots League. Discuss how the Lego robot and the Mars rover may fit the definition of a robot.
4. Explore a Mars rover in detail using the Anatomy of a Rover Flash Interactive. As they examine the rover, they should observe the different types of tasks it is capable of performing. (Viewing this resource requires enabling the Adobe Flash player in your browser.)
5. Watch the RoboSnail QuickTime Video and the Robofly QuickTime Video, and the Kismet QuickTime Video.
6.What is a Robot? Wrap up (This is what you will turn in). Open the google doc WS ( you can write directly on this page). Answer the questions.

Welcome to Robotics.
No synchronous classes this week, we will begin synchronous classes next week. If you have any questions, email me or come by my office hours.

Let's think about "What is a robot"?
How would you describe a robot? If you meet someone who has never heard of a robot what would you tell them?
Draw a picture of a robot. Use a blank 8x11, unlined paper. Drawing should be large (take up most of the page),neat and colored. What does your robot do? Create a list of the tasks your robot can do. Upload your drawing to google classroom. If you are unsure how to do this, view the google classroom basics presentation in the resource tab.

We will share these with each other next week.

Homework: Homework is assigned on Mondays and will be due the following Monday.
Complete your robot drawing.

Welcome to Robotics.
No synchronous classes this week, we will begin synchronous classes next week. If you have any questions, email me or come by my office hours.

Let's think about "What is a robot"?
How would you describe a robot? If you meet someone who has never heard of a robot what would you tell them?
Draw a picture of a robot. Use a blank 8x11, unlined paper. Drawing should be large (take up most of the page),neat and colored. What does your robot do? Create a list of the tasks your robot can do. Upload your drawing to google classroom. If you are unsure how to do this, view the google classroom basics presentation in the resource tab.

We will share these with each other next week.

Homework: Homework is assigned on Mondays and will be due the following Monday.
Complete your robot drawing.