Week 3 - Day 1

Week 3, Day 1 got our budding roboticists off to a great start with another round of design and revise exercises.  This time, campers designed a robot by sketching it and using the creative bricks to build it.  They then passed their designs to their neighbor, who then had to build it from the sketches they created.  The results were enlightening - and we discussed the challenges of using the designs of others to construct robots and other models. We met Alpha Trion, who taught us about programming and using sensors to make decisions.  He used his ultra-sonic sensor to stop before he ran into walls, or campers! We looked at robots performing functions, like these at the BMW car plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46x6k2wieU.  Next we began learning about sequential programming with the Mindstorms Labview environment, as we programmed our robot to travel certain distances before making a turn.  Finally, the 6-foot robot made another appearance as campers learned to program using psuedo-code.