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Design Engineering and Robotics

Term 2 Week 4

This week we will compete in the Freeze Tag challenge.

You should complete three hours of work this week.

Ms Tiplady-Scurr

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Friday

  1. Start a new page in your notebook - write out the challenge and draw your build - Especially all those people who are not building!
  2. Amend your robot get it ready to build
  3. Check your charge
  4. Box check - Sensors, cables, motors,parts etc

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Competition!

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First round

Second Round

Winners of first round

Third Round

Winners of the second Round

Game 1

T-800 and Data won

T800 and Data vs

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Ralf and Robbie

Game 2

ZEN and D.A.R.R.Y.L

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HAL and KITT 2

(Robbie and DATA6)

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Working at Home?

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  1. Go through the slides for this week and watch the videos on the lessons. Here is the unit we are looking at lessons 4-6.
  2. Your group will build the bot.
  3. Work through the VexVR Challenges
  4. Complete the quiz on Hāpara for any of the Units you have done and submit them.
  5. You should do 3 hours of work this week

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Team Freeze Tag

Go here to work through lesson 4. Don’t change the wheels (lesson 3)

  1. Make sure your controller works - if it doesn’t have a look at lesson 2 on the above link.
  2. Get ready for next week by adding the bumper switch and the touch LED.
  3. Code the robot and sensors as per the following slides
  4. If you are finished, tidy your box ready for the competition
  5. If all above complete - practise driving in a figure of 8
  6. Finally you can work on your history of robotics slides or watch the remaining video we started last term on Claude Shannon both on Hāpara

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Practise the bumper switch Code

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Freeze Tag Code

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Robot name

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T-800

Alex

Sam

Declan

Data

Mathew K

Lucas

Aiden

Ralf

Wenbo

Phoenix

Matthew C

Robbie

Portia

Kaitlin

Holly

ZEN

Mehdi

James

CJ

D.A.R.R.Y.L

Joshua

Connor

Keegan

HAL

Kyan

Justyce

Tevita

KITT

Blaze

Callum

Vion

Twiki

Troy

Izack

Ms TS

Robots and Groups

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Super job, see you next week.

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If you are working from home this week:

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  1. Continue with your history of robotics slides
  2. Work through the Freeze Tag lessons and videos

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Vocabulary

Force - any influence that, when unbalanced, will change the motion of an object. Can also be described as a push or a pull.

Traction - the force that makes an object move by pushing against a surface.

Mechanical Advantage - a measure of the ratio of output force to input force in a system

Gear Train - a mechanism that is made up of two or more gears

Driving Gear - the gear which is connected to the input force (such as a motor)

Driven Gear - the gear which is connected to the output (such as the wheel), and moves because it’s connected to the input or driving gear

Torque - measure of the force that can cause an object to rotate about an axis, also known as rotational force

Mass - the amount of matter or substance that makes up an object

Center of mass - the point on the object where force is applied so that it moves without rotation

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