I have never built a robot before and I never have shown any interest in doing so, so this made this activity a bit interesting. We had to build a robot car and then learn how to move it around.
We started be putting together all the little pieces that would keep it together and then we put in the battery and hooked it up to the computer. The first thing we did, was working the ports. The ports are technically the wheels. We figured out a suitable speed for it to be on. To turn the wheel, the two ports have to have different speeds, one slower than the other one. When we programmed the speeds, we tested the robot. I found it a littler unnerving when the robot started to move. I was not quite expecting it to move so freely like that.
Once we got comfortable with the speed options, we were told that we could program sounds onto it, so we started messing around with that. There were several choices to choose from.
Overall, I learned I can actually put something together and have it work. Robotics is actually really interesting, but I really don’t have a further interest in it.
