Robot Design – Callum Clarke’s Log 10036472
Creative Judgement
Log:
Week 1 (16/04/15) – Product and Market Research Phase
(16/04/15)
- Received Robot design brief.
- Made a group via Facebook and a cloud storage.
- Researched robots currently on the market and created a word document for it.
(23/04/15)
- Researched Raspberry Pi and created the word document for it.
- Robots in Society Now and in the Future.
- Read through the given Python document at home.
(30/04/15)
- Started looking at things for the presentation/poster for next week.
(05/04/15)
- Read through the Python notes a little further.
- Researched how our robot could be different to others in the class; with Legos.
Week 2 (07/05/15) – Practical Presentation of Research
(07/05/15)
- Completed half of the poster presenting what we have researched over the weeks.
(10/05/15)
- Research parts to purchase on the internet. Particularly on Amazon.co.uk. Also the base we were going to create to be 3D printed.
Week 3 (14/05/15) – Prototype Development
(14/05/15)
- Found the parts we were going to buy when we get the funding.
- Used Arduino for the first time and got a basic understanding.
(19/05/15)
- Helped contribute to the things on the shopping list.
(21/05/15)
- Set up Raspberry Pi to the monitor and analysed code from pre-existing Raspberry Pi robots.
- Took photos of the process of setting up the Raspberry Pi.
- Handed in our shopping list to be ordered.
(28/05/15)
- Still no shopping materials, instead continued with coding tutorials on YouTube.
(04/06/15)
- We were the first in class to complete the tutorial given by the teacher on programming and modifying the blinking LED light delay and speed.
- No custom parts or group Raspberry Pi's were delivered to begin our robots construction with.
(11/06/15)
-Still waiting for the robotic parts; read through the raspberry pi Initio robot instructions online for a basic idea of how it will be built.
Week 4 (18/06/15) – Product Testing With Key Stage 4 Learners
(18/06/15)
- Received the default robot parts by Initio. Photographed the piecing together of the robot for the final presentation to show the process of the building and putting each wire to each correct pin.
- Went through the testing process of all the motors and sensors to make sure they were all working correctly, including the optional parts, by downloading and applying code.
Week 5 (25/06/15) – Dragons Den Presentation
(25/06/15)
-Finished the Dragons Den Power Point Presentation to be shown on the 02/07/15.
(02/07/15)
-Presented
