St Marys Mindstorm Masters
Monday Night 11-03-2014
Scheduling
This Week will also be a regular week (Mon &
Wed)
Next Week will also be a regular week (Mon &
Wed)
Our competition is 11 classes away!!
The Official Stuff
The Challenge Handbook
The Topic Guide
Oct 24 Updates no new updates this past week
I am creating a document that has the rules and
updates for each member. This will be posted to
our website.
Core Values
We are a team.
We do the work to find solutions with guidance from
our Coaches and Mentors.
We know our Coaches and Mentors dont have all the
answers; we learn together.
We honor the spirit of friendly competition.
What we discover is more important than what we
win.
We share our experiences with others.
We display Gracious Professionalism and
Coopertition in everything we do.
We have fun
From our last class
Steven, Andrew, Chris & Matthew worked on the
following:
Corrections to Thing #2 (not tracking straight) have
been completed
Color Sensor!! We found that the color sensor was
more accurate with our current design. We
experimented with applying the color sensor to 2
missions and based on the board layout, decided
that the color sensor would work best if installed on
the RIGHT hand side
Discussing how people learn, we watched a TED
talk video and held a brainstorming session on
teaching technique to assist with Distracted
Some Programming Reminders:
Both partners should be writing their own programs
and testing different ways to solve the mission.
Save your programs under your own profile.
Program name should end with your initials. Door
CL
Program name should be relatively short and reflect
the mission
Consider executing a mission with a power setting of
50%-75%
If the return to base leg of the mission is relatively
simple, consider increasing the speed to 75%-100%
WORK TOGETHER! Several missions are quite
Tonights Plan:
We will spend some time talking about the Research
Project.
Continue to work on our missions started in the
previous class: Engagement, Reverse Engineering
and Remote Communications
We will practice running these 3 programs back to
back tonight
Testing with the Color Sensor compared to the Light
Sensor
Discussing competition judging and scoring
Make sure that the Color Sensor has been installed
on the RIGHT side of both robots and connected to
Color Sensor VS Light Sensor
Light Sensor (NXT 1.0)
Measures the Amount of light detected
Ambient light (light in the room)
Reflected light (light reflected from the built in LED)
Color Sensor (NXT 2.0 and EV3)
Performs the same functions as the light sensor
described above
In Color Sensor mode the sensor can detect 6
different colors: Black, White, Blue, Green, Yellow
and Red
The third functionality of this device is Lamp Mode,
where it functions as a basic light, optionally Red,
Judging
We will be judged in 3 different areas:
Core Values
Project Work
Robot Design
All judging will follow rubrics
Robot Competition scoring will be handled
separately
Static Document
Web based application
World Class Learning
What we like to Learn
How we have learned
Mobile Technology
Commercials and
YouTube videos
Legacy Lego Robots
Websites and YouTube
videos
Computer Hardware
Assembly
YouTube videos
Virtual Reality
YouTube and Vlogs
Video Gaming
Techniques
Websites and YouTube
videos
Mother Boards
YouTube & Vimeo
videos
Better ways to learn
World Class Learning
What we want to Learn
How we want to acquire this new
skill or knowledge
How to use 3D printing for artificial
limbs
College, higher education
Tanks military hardware
Engineering, college
Flying an airplane
Lessons, flight simulators,
Martial Arts
Classes,
Exoskeleton suits
Practice
Ride a motorcycle
Class
How to build a computer
Apprenticeship
World Class Learning
Population to Assist
New skill or knowledge
Licensed Drivers
Distracted Driving
Elderly
Reading with poor eye sight
3rd World hunger
Reallocate food supply eliminate
waste
Military
Remove physical risk
Teenagers
Communication
Outstanding Tasks
Re-visit Adamss attachment to simplify
installation and removal
Install correct (newly ordered) connectors in robot
#2
Project Planning
Class
Planned Work
Accomplishments
Oct Mon 20
Engagement, Reverse Engineering,
Remote Communication
Completed Open Door, Apprenticeship & Changing
Condition, Initial build of 2nd robot
Oct Wed 22
Engagement, Reverse Engineering,
Remote Communication
Oct Mon 27
Engagement, Reverse Engineering,
Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2
Robot Name: Thing #1 & Thing #2
Oct Wed 29
Engagement, Reverse Engineering,
Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2, Color & Light Sensor
testing
Color & Light Sensor testing we have decided to
use the Color Sensor instead of the light sensor.
Thing #2 corrected so that it is tracking straight,
there was an issue with the rear slides
Mon Nov 03
Engagement, Reverse Engineering,
Remote Communication. Update
Robot #2, Color & Light Sensor
testing
Wed Nov 05
Mon Nov 10
Wed Nov 12
Project Planning
Class
Planned Work
Mon Nov 17
Wed Nov 19
Mon Nov 24
Wed Nov 26
Mon Dec 01
Wed Dec 03
Mon Dec 08
Competition Rehearsal
Wed Dec 10
Competition Rehearsal
Accomplishments
