For our playful creations, we built two Minions. One Minion tracks where you are and follows you, keeping a certain distance away. The other Minion is a similar concept to a wind-up car. After pushing a button to start recording its motion, the Minion keeps track of motor rotation so it can play back the movement […]
Kevin, Lucy, David, and Ahmed’s Flappy Pong
For the interactive video game, we decided to combine two of the most popular video games of all time: Flappy Bird and Pong. We fused the two together by changing how the paddles move. Instead of a joystick or up and down buttons, etc, the paddles move like Flappy Bird does. Pushing the touch sensor […]
Kevin, Lucy, David, and Ahmed (Don’t) Mind the Gap
In order to cross the gap, the four of us did not find a feasible and proper plan until it was too late. While our strategy of brainstorming and then designing (or thinking of designing) over and over is an essential part of the Engineering Design Process, it can be difficult to change designs multiple […]
Kevin, Lucy, David, and Ahmed’s Haunted House
For our haunted house project, we made multiple parts, some of which acted together and others which acted separately. We had spiders moving up and down on fishing line, hanging above the walkway, a monitor that used an ultrasonic sensor to trigger the movement of the picture’s eyes, a car with a spider attached to […]
David and Ahmed’s Magical Coffee Break
Our robot performs the magic trick of turning black coffee into “brown” coffee (milk mixed in). There are two wheels controlled by one motor for driving, another motor used to swing the arm in and out of the coffee cup, and a medium motor used to spin our stirrer. Another motor is attached as a […]
Ahmed and David’s Wire Routing Tool
Our tool was designed to route wires for extravehicular activity. It utilizes a gear with four sectors to twist the wire ties after each wire tie has been inserted in a different sector. The gear was 3D printed. The gear twists the ties with the help of the medium motor, which is activated by pressing […]
The Other Elephant Also Named Jumbo
Ahmed Gado and David Janowsky For our animal robot, we built an elephant (aptly named Jumbo). The robot uses two large motors, one medium motor, and the speaker for outputs, and it uses the ultrasonic sensor and the touch sensor as inputs. By default, Jumbo moves forward. When approaching an object in front of […]