Sunday, October 01, 2006

Week 2

Activity 1: Good Robots Follow Directions
- What can robots do? How do robots move? How do they sense/feel? What would you call a set of instructions? In "computer" talk?
- What is a program?
- What does it do?
- Introduce the robots and talk about how to program them
- ACTIVITY: Program your friend
- ACTIVITY: Program the robots
- ACTIVITY: Program Battle Bots

Activity 2: What makes a robot a good driver?
- ACTIVITY: Open the boxes and attach the motors to the brick
- Motors spin - wha can the spinnng acion do with 1 motor?
- wheels make it move
- attach pieces to make a chopping arm
- What happens when you attach two motors?
- Turning - determine how turning works

Activity 3: Do robots have a sense of humor?
- Do animals have different senses than humans?
- What different sense do they have?
- What different senses to we have?
- Robotic Senses
- Touch
- Light
- Sound
- Ultrasonic/Ultrasound