Robot Battles

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Tutorial Days Availability

Monday June 13th	Tuesday June 14th	Wednesday June 15th
Mr.Way available in room 238/239(Robotics). Computers and desk space available for other subject work. 1:00PM - 4:00PM	Mr.Way available in room 238/239(Robotics). Computers and desk space available for other subject work. 1:00PM - 4:00PM	Mr.Way available in room 238/239(Robotics). Computers and desk space available for other subject work. 1:00PM - 4:00PM

Monday Funny: Short Answers

from xkcd.com

XKCD - Short Answers

No Monday Funny This Week. Instead You Get This

May 24th Class Plan

Hello all, I'm on a field trip with another class today and so you are in the capable hands of Mr. Chibry.

L296 motor controller

You are to be working on one of three things and are expected to help other groups through them if you have already solved a previous challenge.

1. IR Controlled LEDs - Make 4 LEDs light up after 4 different buttons are pressed on your IR remote.

I2C Motor Controller

2. L296 Motor Controller - These are the red controllers. Make them drive two motors forward, backward and then alternate forward and backward on individual motors.

3. I2C Motor Controller - Theory can be found here. If there are no L296s left, begin this one first. they are on the centre table with the appropriate wires.

If all else fails, here are a couple of TED talks that can be used to see the true future of these sorts of technology. (think Mind controlled Robot armies)

 

Videos: Electromagnetism and DC Motors

Monday Funny: Boaty McBoatface

The Next Activity: IR LED Demonstration Board

from xkcd.com

The next activity is actually rather simple. Today we will be speaking about infrared light and how the TSSP passive infrared sensor works.

Your task is to take this information from the lesson (and Arduino Theory 08) and to put it to use.

Your task is to breadboard and demonstrate a program that can control at least 4 LEDs with an infrared remote.

Arduino Theory 04 might also help.

Video: Visible Light Range

BattleBots

Some Battlebots Battles

Google's Self-Driving Car

Asimo and Falcon V

Robot Research Project

The next assignment can be found here. It is due in your assignment folder on Monday.

Work Habits Rubric

Please Fill out the Work Habits Rubric in the bar on the right. It is an individual rubric so fill it out for yourself, not your group.

Please re-do this if you did it on March 31st.

Neat Project: Fluxx

Fluxx Project

Video: Historic Robotics Rocket Landing

Monday Morning Funny: The Invisible Man

Food for Thought: VR Sensory Immersion Generator

VR Sensory Immersion Generator

Weekly Schedule

Welcome back.

This week's schedule follows:

• Tuesday - Work period for project. Electronics Review.
• Wednesday - Coding review. Work period for project.
• Thursday - Module Quiz. Remaining time to complete Work Habits/Employability Survey.
• Friday - Safety Meeting. Final work period to submit project.

Module One Review Sheets

Quiz Topics

Resistor Colour Codes Cheat Sheet (will be on quiz)

Practice questions (coming soon)

Sending You Off to Spring Break With a Smile

Weekly Reminders: March 14-17th

This week we are going to focus primarily on the Blinking Lights Game Project.

All material for that project must be handed in at the end of class Thursday.

The projects will be marked and entered into Homelogic over Spring Break.

You may finish any missing parts once we come back from break.

As a reminder, the unit one and two module quiz has been moved to Wednesday March 30th. A review pamphlet will be published no later than Thursday the 17th of March.

Monday Morning Funny

Video: Designing Machines

Reminder: Assignment Check

from xkcd.com

Just a friendly reminder that I will be taking in everyone's checklists at the end of class today.

They will be returned tomorrow after being entered in HomeLogic.

You may complete them at any time and the marks will be updated.

Happy Wednesday

Collin's Lab: Desoldering

Monday Morning Funny: The Front Fell Off

Robotics Timelines

from xkcd.com

Here are the Robotics due dates up until Spring Break:

• Wednesday March 9th: Arduino Programming assignments due
• Wednesday March 16th: Module one and two final project due
• Thursday March 17th: Module one and two quiz

Friday Funny: Travelling in Groups

Blinking Lights Final Project

Arduino Assignment (Alternate Final Assignment)

Purpose: In this assignment you will be creating an interactive game using the following parts:

• Arduino Uno(R3) (or Sketchboard, or Redboard)
• USB Programming Cable
• 1 Protoboard
• 5 Green LEDs
• 1 non-Green LED
• 6 weak resistors (100Ω-1kΩ, all same value)
• 1 strong resistor (10kΩ)
• 1 Strip of 90° pin headers
• 1 pushbutton

The game should blink the five green leds in order and should stop the blinking at the currently blinking light when the button is pushed.

One of the lights should be the “winning light” and when that light is stopped at with the push button is pressed another LED should turn on.(again, different coloured LED).

You should also plan to integrate a potentiometer(trimpot) controlled speed dial to the circuit.

To receive full marks, your group must submit the following:

• The pseudocode you based your code on.

• The Arduino code written in text and submitted through your Google Drive Assignment Folder.
• An electrical diagram (created with Fritzing) the shows the layout of the hardware board.
• A demonstration of the working game.

Assessment

Four things must be submitted at the end of the project:

• The pseudocode(flowchart) used to program the robot.
• The soldered circuit board.
• The electrical schematic of the board (Done in Fritzing).
• A copy of the code used to program the robot.
• The Teamwork Rubric (please note that your teamwork rubric may be modified if Mr.Way feels that you aren’t being truthful.)

	4 - Excellent	3 - Good	2 - Basic	1 - Needs Improvement
Pseudocode (flowchart)	The psuedocode matches the programming perfectly and reflects the program used in the project.	The psuedocode matches the programming with a few errors and reflects the program used in the project.	The psuedocode matches the programming in spirit and reflects the program used in the project.	The psuedocode does not match the program
Hardware	The hardware is connected in a logical way that demonstrates clear knowledge of how each part works. All parts have been included.	The hardware is connected in a way that shows how each part works with some redundant or illogical parts. Most parts have been included.	The hardware is connected but only one part (input/output) works or the documentation is partially incomplete.	The documentation is incomplete and/or the system does not function properly.
Electrical Schematic	The electrical schematic follows all conventions properly and is easy to understand.	The electrical schematic most conventions properly and is somewhat easy to understand.	The electrical schematic has multiple errors but follows most conventions properly.	The electrical schematic is missing significant circuits.
Arduino Code	All software conventions are followed and the program is easy to understand because of proper commenting. All features are present.	Almost all software conventions are followed and the program is understandable due to satisfactory commenting.	Either the software conventions aren’t followed or the program is difficult to understand due to poor commenting.	Only one part of the program functions (Input or output) and the commenting is poor.
Teamwork*	You were engaged as a teammate and helped to lead or follow in completing the task.	You were engaged but frequently distracted from completion of the project.	You were mostly disengaged or distracted from the project but contributed somewhat.	You were absent from or completely disengaged from the process of finishing the project.

*Teamwork scores will be an individual mark while the other assessments are group-based.

Some Friday Entertainment - ASAP Science Wars

Video: Massimo Banzi - How Arduino is Open-Sourcing Imagination

The Arduino Basics Checklist

Trimpot

Over the next few days, we will be continuing our Arduino Boot-camp.

The Arduino checklist is meant as a guide on projects that you should be able to demonstrate before we look at putting them together to make a game.





The following tasks are included:

Pizeospeaker

• Blink an LED Using the Arduino
• Read a pushbutton with the Arduino
• Control an LED output with an Arduino Input
• Read a trimpot with and Arduino
• Fade an LED from off to full power with code
• Match an LED brightness output to a trimpot input
• Make a pizeospeaker play a popular song

Each task will be assessed to see that your code works correctly and that your hardware is correct.

Pseudo-Code Chart

Video: Big Bang Theory - Friendship Algorithm

Video: What is an Algorithm? - David Malan

Video: Chris Steiner on Algorithms

Monday Morning Funny: Sumo Sprint

Please test this Google Form, Thanks

I promise I'm not Rickrolling you.

Video: Bust a Cap

Video: MAKE Presents - Resistors, LEDs, and Capacitors

The Plan For This Week

The plan for this week is as follows:

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• Tuesday - Swap modules. Coders do electronics, electronics group moves to CODE.ORG. Electronics group starts soldering.
• Wednesday - Accountability Pillar Survey(~30 minutes) continue soldering/coding. Begin breadboarding electronics.
• Thursday - Work period for all projects.
• Friday - Safety meeting. Final day for coding/electronics first section. CODE.ORG marks recorded on Monday February 22nd.

Don't worry if you haven't finished the 555 Timer Breadboard. We will have more time for that next week.

Tuesday's Cool Video

Video: Nadine the Robot

Progress Update

Currently with the two groups we are progressing well through our first modules.

Electronics

Most groups have finished the soldering board activity. These can be handed in anytime after they are completed.
Students will have one more class (officially) to finish their bread boarding assignment(4 circuits). After today, they will need to find time after school or after they have finished their coding work

Programming

For the group who began with coding, the CODE.ORG activities are due Tuesday. Those students will be swapping to electronics on Tuesday.

We will be coming back to do some projects that bring both of these modules together in two weeks.

Video: Rise of the Drones

This video is for those who are done CODE.ORG already.

 

Video: Collins Lab: Breadboards, Perfboards, and Literal Breadboards

Monday Morning Funny: Pepsi Sumo

Food For Thought: Exploding Batteries

Signing Up for CODE.ORG

To sign into CODE.ORG do the following:

Go to CODE.ORG 20 Hour Course

Create an account.

Go to "code studio"

At the bottom, add WKFSEM as your teacher code.

Something to Brighten Your Day

Drawing Schematics

Welcome to Robotics

Hello and welcome to the class of 2018 as well as all of you graduating earlier than that who want to have some fun in Robotics before you graduate.

This year will be an interesting semester of learning, growing, tinkering and fabricating. We will be keeping our focus on four facets of robotics this year when we tackle Electronics, Computer Programming, Computer Aided Drawing, and Electropneumatics. All of these things will be put to the test near the end of our semester when we undertake a pair of robotics challenges that will challenge student's ability to apply what they have learned.

All of the credits and policies regarding this course can be found in the course outline in the right sidebar of this page. That sidebar will also be the place to find all of the theory presentations, assignments and course documents for this semester.

While every effort will be made to give students enough time in class to complete their assignments and projects, it is inevitable that many students will want to take things further. To this end, the lab will be opened Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday after school until 5:00PM(and Monday with permission).

During this time students are welcome to work on their projects and to work with the Intermediate/Advanced class that will be doing project work during that time period.

If you need to communicate with me at any time the easiest way is email. Contact me at MDWAY@CBE.AB.CA or MDWAY@EDUCBE.CA

Enjoy the start of the year and remember:
Don't Panic!

Way

Setting Up Your Assignment Folder

Your homework to complete before Wednesday is simple, set up an assignment folder in Google Drive.


Follow the following, simple steps:

• Log in to Google Drive with your student webmail, @EDUCBE.CA account (those who can't remember it can email me at MDWAY@CBE.AB.CA

• Create a folder that is named [YourLastName][YourFirstName]RoboticsIntroAssignments
• For example, mine would be WayMitchellRoboticsIntroAssignments (use underscores if the lack of spaces makes you uncomfortable).

Coincidence? Conspiracy?

• Share the folder with me at MDWAY@EDUCBE.CA.(Please note that you cannot email this email with anything but another @EDUCBE.CA Account)

Video: Pallate Jack Fail