So finally, our last project of the year, we made improvements from our prototype from last week! As our final showcase project, we took a 180 degree turn away from our original prototype. This is because we got much needed feedback and advice from the children, parents, and faculty from the research center. So what […]
We build a catapult that can be used by the kids to play bowling. We coded the catapult so that a kid controlling the catapult would be able to designate the power/speed of the catapult launching the ping pong ball. This is done by an additional NXT motor attached to the side that is used […]
For our video game project, we decided to program a game quite similar to the well-known childhood game, Bop It!. We renamed it as Beep It! as we felt it was an appropriate name for such a game made out of legos. The game works by scoring a point each time a player does the […]
We decided to try something risky with this project. By making our robot a dangerous machine to work with – as in there is a pocketknife attached to it. After being inspired by Scam School, we decided to facilitate the “Stab the Chosen Card with a Knife” trick with our robot doing the “stabbing” part […]
We were given the task of threading the wires through the loops and closing the loops, which was potentially a task for an astronaut in space. So what we decided to do was to make a handheld tool that could be used to complete this task in any orientation, and simply one-handed, regardless of which […]
As we try to investigate the limits and functionalities of the gyro sensor in the EV3 kit, the first question that we came across was, what exactly does the gyro sensor even do? This was simply answered by hooking up the gyro sensor to the EV3 brick and see what the output is in the […]
Hi my name is Yekwon and I was born in Seoul, South Korea, but I moved to Irvine, California when I was 10. I love everything technology and learning new languages. I am planning on majoring in Computer Science and joining the Table Tennis Club on campus, so it seems like I’ll be seeing Professor […]
The Harambot 4000 Model E was invented by Liam Durant and Yekwon Park. The robot functions with a brick that resembles the body, and 4 motors attached to the brick that resemble the legs of a gorilla. There are also ultrasonic sensor and touch sensor attached to represent eyes and chest, respectively. First, the motors […]