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Alien
Streetcleaner and Woodcutter
This
robot has wings, antennae, and green and blue lights that flash.
"The Alien Streetcleaner and Woodcutter" moves forwards
and backwards, as well, it has a light sensor to tell the robot
when it is approaching an obstacle. Imagine this crazy Alien cleaning
your street and cutting your wood!
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The
Beetle
This
robot is very strong and powerful. The RCX box is secured to the
top of the robot. The motor attachment design was strengthened,
which helped the gears stay meshed together properly. A touch
sensor prevents the Beetle from bumping into walls, while the
light sensor turns on the the light when it g dark.
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Bug
Our
bug moves forwards and backwards and keeps going until it bumps
into something. It changes direction when it does bump into something.
Also the eyes light up while it is going and turn off when it
bumps into something. Dr. Friesen added an additional challenge
to us. We needed to create our robot using only one motor so that
we would learn how to use gears and pulleys to transfer energy.
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 Car
We
built a car with two different sensors, a touch sensor and a
light sensor. The light sensor would work at the front of the
car and the touch sensor at the back of the car. When the car
approaches an object and gets too close, it will turn to avoid
the object. When the car backs into an object it will stop and
move forward. Dr.
Friesen added an additional challenge to us. We needed to create
our robot using only one motor so that we would learn how to
use gears and pulleys to transfer energy.
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Cricket
Our
cricket moves forwards and backwards using a pulley to drive the
wheels. It shows that you can have a robot travel without being
built with the RCX unit. The Cricket is not an autonomous robot.
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Driller (video link)
Our robot drills through things, like paper.
To put our robot to the test, we decided to battle a friend's robot
and guess what, we won, but our front wheels fell off. |
Giraffe
Robot
We created a giraffe robot. Animal robots
are fun to make. They help you to understand how an animal moves.
It was a real challenge to make the head of our giraffe go up and
down while the it was moving forwards and backwards. Dr.
Friesen added an additional challenge to us. We needed to create
our robot using only one motor so that we would learn how to use
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The
Killer Dragster
This robot is an aerodynamic dragster built
for racing. It uses gears instead of pulleys. The structure of the
dragster is strong because, in the beginning, it tended to break
appart due to the incredible speed that it travelled. This new and
improved dragster travels at a super speed and stays together at
the same time. A touch sensor keeps the robot from running into
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Madison
the Cat
This robot is designed to catch mice. The
robot's two eyes light up and its tail wags as it moves. This robot
was also very structurally strong. By bracing the motor on the back
of the robot, the creators of Madison did not experience a problem
with the forces that the gears exerted on the structure. The design
enabled Madision to climb steep hills. This group also built a baby
cat named Sreva, that sits on Madison's back. |
The
Pooper Scooper
Dog owners would pay a fortune for a robot
that would clean up the dog poop and if these young designers
could invent a robot to perform this tedious, smelly task, they
would be able to market it and become rich.
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Robo (video link)
Robo , our robot is quite unique. It can
"walk". We were very excited by this challange and
quickly figured out that a two legged robot was impossible.
Our three legged robot is designed to hit an object, turn away
and continue on its way. We accomplished this with a touch sensor.
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The
Rocket
Meet the Killer Dragster's competition.
Despite numerous attempts and many rebuilds, this robot always
came in second. A light sensor keeps the car from running into
obstacles, like the Killer Dragster.
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Scaredy
Cat
We wanted to create a robot that behaved
like a frightened cat. It moves forwards and backwards and keeps
going until the light sensor registers that it is now dark which
means that it has bumped into something. It quicky changes direction
when it bumps into something so it looks like it is afraid. scardy
cat robot that went forwards and backwards. Dr.
Friesen added an additional challenge to us. We needed to create
our robot using only one motor so that we would learn how to use
gears and pulleys to transfer energy.
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Ship
Loading Robot
This
robot moves film containers filled with sand from a loading dock
to a ship. This site contains the various robots that were created to solve
the problem.
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The
Tank
The tank was originally intended to shoot
cannons. Gears move a platform with a cannonball on it. Once the
platform was moved to a certain point the cannonball would pop
off the platform like it was being shot.
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Y2K1
Music Bug
This robot sings Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
while it covers a terrain.
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