My Robot

My Robot

I built two different robots with my lab partners Richard Wolfe and Juliette Jacobson. The first robot was just a basic robot that was able to pick things up and move. It was composed of many different sensors that were able to detect changes in the environment such as something blocking its way. The second robot we built was the gyro boy. The gyro boy was made to be able to move around the room and do different activities. Just like the first robot, it had many different sensors so that it could sense the environment around it. 

We overcame many obstacles when creating this first robot. Sometimes, the instructions were quite hard to read and the details were not included. However, we were able to use common sense and figure out where some pieces went. Also, we had to figure out how to program our robot. This was not exactly easy because none of us had ever programmed a robot before. However, with the instructions, we were able to program it to do many different things. We were then able to play around a bit with the programming to find out all that the robot could do. We had a lot of difficulty with the arm on our robot because we were not able to make it go up and down and pick things up. We tried all the different programmings and it still would not work. I think we might have placed the arm wrong on the robot. Despite all of these difficulties, we were able to build our robot and make it work. 

The second robot we built was called the gyro boy. We chose this robot because we thought it was going to be a fun robot to build, and it looked quite challenging. There were many challenges with this robot. First of all, the instructions were complicated and very hard to read. Therefore, we had to rely on our brains to do most of the building. Also, there were many wires that needed to be attached in different places. These wires were really hard to work with and were very confusing. We never finished this robot because we did not have enough time. However, we built enough of it so that it looked a little like the picture on the instructions.

Building these robots was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about programming. It was challenging but we were able to overcome many obstacles and build a robot.