In a comment to this blog, discuss the different design variables involved in the mousetrap car and how those variables effect performance. You can use any format that you'd like.
·Initial sketches – You will conceptualize your design and prepare a quality sketch of your system. This will be the concept you develop to completion.
·Program Narrative – A written step-by-step description of how you want your team’s marble sorter to operate. Include your motor ports, switch ports, analog input ports and associated values. Be as detailed as possible.
·Daily Entries – Every day keep track of your progress. Your entries must be made in the following form.
oDate:
oTasks yet to be addressed
oTasks Accomplished
·Print out of Program – A copy of the RoboPro program, and each subroutine in that program, will be copied to Word. A written description of each part of the program will need to be included.
·Device Pictures - You must include a series of photographs of your marble sorter.
oSide - Front - Top
oOrthographic
·Reflection - Write a one page reflection about your design. What worked well? What was problematic? What would you change? How well did your group work together?
1.) If in the future machines have the ability to reason, be self-aware and have feelings, then what makes a human being a human being, and a robot a robot?
2.) If you could have a robot that would do any task you like, a companion to do all the work that you prefer not to, would you? And if so, how do you think this might affect you as a person?
3.) Are there any kind of robots that shouldn't be created? Or that you wouldn't want to see created? Why?
4.) Automation and the development of new technologies like robots is viewed by most people as inevitable. But many workers who lose their jobs consider this business practice unfair. Do you think the development of new technologies, and their implementation, is inevitable? What, if anything, should we as a society do for those people who lose their jobs?
1.How do they know Leonardo Da Vinci came up with the concepts of the parachute and helicopter?
2.The mayor of your town has asked you and two friends to design a sitting area in the town park. He would like to speak with you next week about your concepts. What types of sketches should you bring to the meeting to be sure he understands your ideas?
1.In what ways did prehistoric engineers overcome limitations of the time to perform the same functions as modern engineers?
2.Which engineering feat of the twentieth century do you feel was the most significant and what were some of the underlying principles that finally made it possible?
3.Which areas of current research do you think are going to have the greatest impact in the next ten years and how will that research affect current problems?
4.What were the attributes possessed by early engineers that would help you become a successful engineer today?
Draw a schematic diagram (single view, not to scale) of your group's fluid power system.
Label all of the items, subsystems, elements, and other stuff in your diagram.
On a seperate sheet, write a paragraph about how the fluid power laws fit into your system. Consult the PowerPoints that I handed out for details on the laws.
btw: Your PoierPoints should be completed for tomorrow.
Read everything carefully. Do the best you can. Make approximations when necessary, just write everything down. The emphasis of the activity is on the process, not the precission.
Find and save at least one image from the internet which shows/ exemplifies each of the 3 main heat transfer modes: convection, conduction and raditation.
