Monday, April 22, 2013

Constructing our Robot! (reflection overall)


Overall I felt the entire project of building a robot, which could carry a AA battery to charge each of four electric cars parked in the parking lot to be adequate. It was somewhat fun but also stressful, since the robot would always malfunction when it came to the code. Using scratch was quite difficult and confusing in my opinion. However, overall the entire project as a whole was okay. It wasn't the best project that we've done, however I enjoyed it. Building the robot itself and prototyping the design was simple. Programming the robot and finding its function, while graphing it and recording the data as we timed it for the amount of distance it went was more complexed. However eventually we finished right on time. Unfortunately, our robot malfunctioned while we were testing it in the actual course. It ran straight into the parking lot,  knocking over cars. We received 0 points, meaning we failed to meet the objective of this design. Nevertheless, we gained experience out of this design and found enjoyment in working together. My group consisted of Mykiela, Evelyn, and Christian. They were easy to communicate with and made the entire design process enjoyable. Constructing a design report as a group was difficult since others put in more work than some and it was hard to collaborate. I find it harder to work as a group rather than alone on google docs, since collaborating writing is one of my weaknesses. Making the presentation went smoothly since we already had the design report as a base to help us make the slides. Hopefully, our presentation goes well. Overall this project was moderately pleasant.

Links
Design report- click here
Presentation- click here

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