Post-It Brainstorm

by Team

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Post-it Note activity Groups:

1. Display and measuring into/Outputs
2. Appendages/Components
3. Overall function of robot
4. Materials to use
5. Mobility
6. Control (wireless, remote, etc)
7. #/size of kits
8. Sensory
9. Electrical components

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1. Display and measuring into/Outputs

• Opening case
• Exposed breadboard (to add components)
• LCD Display
• Colored LEDs to show processing
• Simple circuit wires that can be exposed
• Center unit with many plug-ins to add on to
• Use measurement devices such as multimeters and Oscilloscopes

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2. Appendages/Components

• One robot
• Accomplish multiple tasks with one appendage
• Robotic arm
• One robot with components to switch out
• Claw
• Swinging arm to hit something (like the Mindstorm robot)
• Wrecking ball
• Punching arm like scorpion stinger (Mindstorm)
• Pick up objects (balls or mines or pencils …)
• Shovel/scoop
• One "brain" for more robots
• Arm able to throw objects
• Make an army of robots with one commander - robots communicate
• two full robots from one kit

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3. Overall function of robot

• Find its way through a maze
• Spiderbot
• Magnet to pick things up
• Catapult
• Play soccer
• Play football
• Play baseball
• Play golf
• Operating robots
• Components: stapler jaw! (Ichiro robot)
• Transformers!
• Cleaning competition
• Driving robot
• Flying robot
• Combat robot

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4. Materials to use

• Lightweight plastic frame
• Strong aluminum appendages
• Use parts available at local hobby stores
• Simple servo motors

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5. Mobility

• Tank like moving robot
  • Tank-style treads
• Wheeled
• 4 wheels
  • Steering
  • 3 wheels
  • Tale wheel
  • 2 wheels
  • Balance
  • Point of contact with the ground
• Two armed, Two legged robot(stands upright)
• Legs to crawl
  • A part that could be made next year

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6. Control (wireless, remote, etc)

• Remote Control
• Autonomous
• Bluetooth
• Wireless
• Control by computer program

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7. #/size of kits

• Material < $100 for Multiple(Initial prototype < $1000)
  • Define Material that could be bought by students
    • Giving lists of material resources
  • Putting together Set for the use
• 2 Day Max to Figure out
  • Bring groups up a day before computation/expo to build robots and compete at the next day.
    • Maybe just a one day
    • More then two days
• Kit add onto by upper classes
  • Multiyear interschool process
    • How many years
    • How to get college to interact with high schools

• One robot for High School another for College
• Fit into Smaller than a 2X2X2-in Box
• Prebuilt robot but take it apart and rebuild to something else
• One Robot Builds another

• A thought for students in the future

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8. Sensory

• Voice commands
• Commands by recognition of cards or shapes
• Cover all human senses
• Two cameras for vision, like eyes
• Able to identify shapes
• Able to identify objects and say what the are

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9. Electrical components

• More boards with different tasks
• Distributed processing
• One main processor

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