27 Aug

As we near the end of this summer, Emily and I decided to compile everything we have done so far into one concise document. I made some instructions on how to download the software and upload the code to the car's microcontroller, which can be found in the document. I also included the lesson pl...

11 Aug

For the past couple of weeks, Emily and I have been working on an abstract and poster for the Summer Undergraduate Scholars Program that we are a part of. The abstract can be found here and the poster is shown below. I have also been working on multiple lesson plans for the paper robot ca...

02 Aug

After finding various robot designs, we looked for lessons that we could potentially make using them. I looked through the Common Core State Standard for Mathematics for the topics covered from grades 5-8 and tried finding related activities to integrate our robots in. Some useful resources I...

23 Jul

Last week, I found a video online about a course in which students made an origami animals zoo. Inspired by the first robot in the video, the snailbot, I made my own 2D outlines of it using Silhoutte Studio. The red lines indicate where you would cut the outline, the blue dotted lines indicate...

13 Jul

Creation of robots is quite a time-intensive and challenging task. Using LEMUR's RoCo has now made the process much faster, simpler and cheaper. The goal of this project is to make use of this easy process to introduce robotics and teach basic Math and Science lessons to young middle school studen...

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