Recently, we learned how to use Sweet Home 3D, which is a house modeling software that allows you to make a 2d floor plan of a house, along with seeing a 3d model of the house below. You can add in rooms, doors, windows, furniture, and a wide variety of items you can import into the software. We also used TinkerCAD, which is another 3d modeling software. We used this to make 3D models of keychains with our names on them, and had those printed out. This software has much more capabilities, though we didn't fully explore them. Both of these can be valuable for students, as they allow for fully 3D designs to be made virtually, and even 3D printed, making fabrication on a smaller scale as a prototype much simpler. This has also been something used by the robotics team to make more precise pieces, such as wheels that can hold a piece of cable, or a cover to go on part of a motor. Overall, both pieces of software can help with many different skills and be applied for many different things, and would be very helpful to use.
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This week, I have been preparing for the Hour of Code week. For this, I am going to be working with the Pepper robot made by SoftBank Robotics and Spheros. The Pepper robot was designed to be a humanoid robot that can move around and interact with people through speech and its touchscreen. You are able to program responses based on any range of factors, ranging from someone saying a specific phrase to using facial recognition. Pepper is also able to detect different emotions through facial expressions and tone of voice. There are many different possibilities for what can be done with pepper, and it will be interesting to experiment with them. The other thing we will be using is Spheros. These are circular robots that you are able to control and drive around, along with programming them to drive in set patterns. I hope that I will be able to make more complex programs with Pepper, and enable it to be more functional and interactive, and show all of the different things it can do for the hour of code week.
This week we worked with drones and spheros, and introduced how to both control and code them to move in specific patterns. We also used a Mavic drone outdoors, allowing us to record video and take pictures (attached below). Through the Tynker app, we were able to fly and code the Parrot Mambo drones, doing anything from moving up down to flips. We also worked with spheros and used the Sphero EDU app. We were also able to drive and code the spheros, and practiced driving them around. With the Mavic drone, it becomes significantly easier to shoot aerial film, along with the Parrot drones if you add a camera attachment. This allows for better angles and viewpoints for recording anything from football games to truck day. |
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