Module 9

Step 1- Getting Excited

T-Shirt

Shirt will be in a school color
Front: Sacred heart crest with 'SHU Engineering' underneath
Back: quote that is engineering centred.

Lego Sumo Strategies:

For our group we are planning on creating a robot that is not only able to move around but also fight. We are unsure if we want to create a more square like robot like in the video shown to us, or one that has a ramp that flips upward. Either of these designs will be more focused on the robot being able to move around the ring easily. Our end result however, will depend on the mobility that the lego robots are limited to, if we believe it to be too slow we will instead focus on a robot that is offensively superior.  


Step 2: Planning

Build Strategy

Stephen and Lucinda will work on Mission 1
Nate will work on Mission 2 and 4
Ryan will work on Mission 3
Lucinda will work on Mission 5
Stephen will assemble all the missions together

We decided to not work in pairs for the missions outside of mission one. This was because we believed that separating the work load this way would be the most effective. So, while Lucinda and Stephen were doing Mission One which we knew would take the longest, Ryan and Nate were able to keep progress moving forward by working on seperate missions. On this note, we believed each mission outside of Mission One did not need to have people paired up as it would have at least one person sitting without doing anything.

Track3r Mission One:

Track3r Mission Two:

Track3r Mission Three:

Track3r Mission Four:

Track3r Mission Five:

Step 5 Mind-storm Code Explorations:

The medium motor block controls the speed and how the entire robot moves around. By the medium motor has two main things, the entire speed and direction that the motor moves. The move steering block controls which direction the robot moves. It can control forward, backward, left, and right. On top of this it can also control where and when the robot stops. The sound block can create sound. It can play both pre-recorded songs or just specific musical notes. Display block can display text or graphics on the EV3 Brick display.

Mission 5 Code Explanation:

The fifth mission is a time trial. Its code starts by having the machine count down 75 seconds. During this time, the "blades" attachment is being powered to rotate at 75 power from the medium. The code tells the block that if it touches any red colour an error alarm is played at full blast. But, if the block senses any of the colours: yellow, brown, green, or blue, a fanfare sound is played. This fanfare sound is to signal that a tire has been moved from its original position, which is on top of one of the the four colours. If the task is completed, touching the four colours listed above, a cheering sound is played. But, if the time runs out, a crying sound is played out.