Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Teaching Robotics

Teaching robotics can be very fun.  Keep in mind that each student responds to different approaches and materials.  Some students are visually oriented , some are hands on , some love to read , some respond to lectures.  Allow the students as much autonomy as practicable.
Below are some preliminary ideas for introducing the subject of robots.


Dissect
 gather some ( salvage ) common robotic electronics and dissect them
       printers  ( steppers , motors , belts, slide rods , gears )
       scanners
       hard drive
       RC models .... cars, boats , drones
a salvage yard may donate some of the above
       
Elements of robots
demonstrate common elements of robots
make a kit
motors
screw positioner
sensors
gears

Action video
      put together video of robots in action 
             long on action… short on words
      tree climbing
      quadracopter
      sea going   diving
       pipecrawling
         see examples below

Robots in Film
      Iron Giant
      Lost in Space  ( best is at minute 9:00 )
      Iron Man   ( is he a robot ? )   sometimes the suit is used without a man in it
   
      poll of best robots in film

Simulations
   simulation software
    gears            http://geargenerator.com/
 
Programming
Scratch
Python
      Pyro

Development Boards that may be useful
Chipcon and GreatCowBasic


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Robots in Action



























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Suspense ......  things to follow up on
http://www.tensorflow.org/    googlized  machine intelligence
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