| Date |
What we did in
class |
Assignment |
| 9/8/09 |
In class today, we talked about how our class would work this year,
forming engineering groups, keeping journals. We attempted to
define the characteristics of a robot, and explored
some of the sensors of the
NXT. |
Homework:
What is a Robot? List at least 5 examples of robots found in your
daily life and briefly describe their Inputs and Outputs.
For example:
Television:
Inputs - Buttons, remote control, signals;
Outputs: screen images, sound
|
| 9/15/09 |
In class, we played around with
writing simple programs to the NXT. Students wrote
programs on the NXT as well as on the computer for download.
Work groups were assigned. |
Homework: Think of a task,
like making a sandwich. Write down all the steps that it
would take to accomplish the task well. |
| 9/22/09 |
Students wrote 5 simple programs and
practiced downloading and running the programs to the NXT. |
None |
| 9/29/09 |
Students built a simple robot from
instructions for the purpose of having something to practice
programming on. After building was complete, students
wrote programs to carry out simple instructions as directed. |
|
| 10/6/09 and 10/13/09 |
Students are working on meeting
certain programming challenges with their robots, such as
learning to respond to being touched, responding to getting too
close to something, learning to "see" a black line. |
|
| 11/16/09 |
This week, many students are working
on creating a robot that can get itself out of a chasm by
bumping into the sides and backing up until it finds it's way
out. We received some new lego kits this week and so work
groups have been modified to make a few of them smaller. |
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