Our group started off with the idea of creating a form of the game “Brick Breakers”, in which a ball bounces off of a platform and goes upward, breaking bricks on its route. The final product, however, resulted in a similar game with bouncing balls, but instead of aiming to contact the ball with […]
Chris and Justin’s Harry Botter
For our project, we decided to integrate entertainment magic and the illusion of moving objects. Our robot is decorated as a wizard, resembling Harry Potter. It is wearing a wizard hat and holds a wand in its right arm. We programmed the brick to play the Harry Potter theme song throughout the performance (wrote […]
Justin and Chris’s Space Drill
For our project, we decided to create a handheld device that can screw/unscrew a nut and transfer it from one bolt to another. The main idea behind our project was to use motors and tires so that the spinning wheel with the grip of the rubber could screw/unscrew the nut. At first, we started […]
Ultrasonic sensor Exploration
For our experiment we decided to test the limitation and accuracy of the ultrasonic sensor. We started off by choosing three different objects to test our sensor on. We agreed on a small cereal bowl, a rubix cube, and a deodorant stick. First of all, we moved the object around the sides of […]
Robotic Scorpion
For our robotics project, we decided to create a robotic scorpion. We started off by designing the base and leg movement,so we used tracks for the legs to emphasize the side-legs of a scorpion. Mounted on top of the base is the EV3 brick connected to 4 motors and 2 sensors (ultrasonic and touch). […]