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Uniform
Thank you for all the research you have done to find a suitable uniform supplier. We have decided to go with My Custom Tshirts who have a reasonable pricing and have the navy colour we wanted.
https://mycustomtshirts.com.au/designer/customize/43873432
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Testing at Home
We are working on a few ways of getting some form of a “mat” for you to test at home. This will either be printed A4 parts of the mat wireframe, or recreated lines using black electrical tape. Both have pros and cons, and we will let you know once we have worked this out.
How To Design An Attachment
There are good reasons why a civil engineer don’t go straight into building the bridge, and why a software engineer don’t go straight into writing the code.
A brand new idea needs to come with careful planning and designing to ensure we minimise errors and problems down the track. This is the reason why your attachments you plan to use for a mission must first be designed before you can start building it.
- Let your hand be the attachment!
- Brainstorm all the possible ways you can activate the mission. There will usually be more than 1 way to solve the mission. Will it be a forklift, a grapple or a passive attachment?
- Then decide on the best attachment after you have acted out all the possible solutions.
- Write the algorithm that will explain to the bot what to do.
- Do this in your own notebook and it will be collected at the end.
- Draw a diagram of your attachment, labelling the key components that you will use.
- Do this is your own notebook and it will be collected at the end.
- What gear sizes will it need? How will the beams be attached?
- Label your diagram with names of the Lego parts
- Build your design!
- Code it based on your algorithm!
It is highly likely that your first version of your solution will not work, and that is OKAY!
Engineers face problems like this every day at work and it is the job of the engineer to tackle the issue and make improvements. So if your attachment doesn’t work, reiterate from step 1 and see what changes you need to do in each of those steps to make it better.
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Homework
- Head of Mechanical (due 6/9/2021): improve the driving bot
- Wires fully tucked away
- Pins/axles fully exposed for easy slip-on attachment
- Use minimal pieces
- Post photos of designed bot
- Team Captain: take a look at how the team is going compared to the planned schedule. Are we on track or behind? What can we do to catch up if we are behind? Provide an update in the next session.
- Research Lead: review answers provided in the Innovation Project document. Are they acceptable? Do any of them need to be improved? If so, discuss with that team member.
- All team members:
- Due 8/9/2021: Complete the Innovation Project research questions. Fill out your answers in the document.
- Work on your allocated mission.
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