Dec 22, 2017 - Happy Friday... almost... HomeBrew Robotics Haul...

Entrance Ticket - Where the software meets the road: Certifying the safety of self-driving cars

•  Developing wholly or partially self-driving vehicles that are safe for the mass market 
• What has the Aviation Industry done, that the Auto Industry needs to do?
• Are Autonomous cars more about Hardware or Software?

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:00 - What is the plan for Next Semester?
• RaspberryPI 
• Kerry Bruce
• Facebook - Mr. Bruce's HackerSpace
• Twitter - Kerry Bruce 
• My IT Instructor
• Python
• More Robots
• Lab Equipment
• PLC
• Pneumatics

• 8:00 - 8:20 - Open Lab

• 8:20 - 9:20 - Robot Club

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 20, 2017 - Open Labs and FlexFactor

Entrance Ticket - "Clear Path" 

• Guide Robot for the Blind
• Wow... this Paper is deep... "A simplifying diagrammatic representation of crisp and fuzzy teleo-reactive semantic circuitry for application in robotic agent task control" 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:30 - Open Lab
• Don't Drive Of The Table
• Engineering Project
• 3D Print

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Flex Factor - Entrepreneurial Workshop

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 19, 2017 - Christmas Lights? FlexFactor Slide Review

Entrance Ticket - Do something with Christmas Lights

• Pick a project or setup an electronic experiment using some Christmas lights. Document what you plan to do in your Engineering Note Book
• See the following, or find something on line:
• Reference on fixing Christmas lights
• Recycling Christmas Lights <-- do this with 3-5 lights and use 5Volts. Does this work?
• Blinking Christmas Lights
• What You Need to Know About Current, Voltage and Resistance

 What You Need to Know About Current, Voltage and Resistance
Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:00 - 8:15 - Take a look at the FlexFactor Entrepreneur Textbook.  Review Chapters 1-3

• 8:15 - 9:20 - Flex Factor Slide Review & Open Lab
• Each team will review Slides with me in the Conference area

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 18, 2017 - FlexFactor and Projects

Entrance Ticket - What is happening in the Tech Industry...

• On Demand Webinars & Educational Courses 
• See DesignNews and Sign up for News and Updates

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:20 - Open Lab - Get Some Stuff Done

• 8:20 - 8:20 - FlexFactor Canvas Signup and Lecture

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 14, 2017 - Lets get some stuff done on our Projects

Entrance Ticket - Humble Bundle MAKER books...

•  Take a look at this Humble Bundle Maker Skills Builder Bundle

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:20 - - 3D Printing 
• Key Chain Lab

• 8:20 - 9:20 - Engineering Projects

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 12, 2017 - Check out this Instructables... CritterBot...

Entrance Ticket - Check out this Instructables... CritterBot... and also follow my Steam Clown Blog (Submit your email on the right side) 

• http://steamclown-mechatronics.blogspot.com/
• Check out other Instructables you would like to build next semester... Arduino or RaspberryPI...  Submit one to IC

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 7:50 - An internship at Northrop Grumman is unique
• High School Internships
• FAQ
• Professional Development 

• 7:50 - 8:00 - The Village Drill
• BYU Capstone Mechanical Engineering Project Video
  

• 8:00 - 8:20 - Flex Factor Slides
• Get with your team, assign each member a specific side to work on
• Turn in to IC your PDF of the team slides, specifically telling me which slide you worked on today.

• 8:20 - 9:20 - Open Lab

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 11, 2017 - WoHooo for Mark

Entrance Ticket - Survey about Mark McPherson

•  Please fill out this Survey about Mark McPherson
• If you are a junior, please look at this - https://www.rotaryelc.org/ 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 7:59 - Now we are going to watch a robot movie...
• Cassies Take a Tour of Agility Robotics
• OSU - Cassie - Next Generation Robot

• 8:00 - 8:20 - Work on the first  to Job Ready Career Skills at www.jobreadycareerskills.com 
• Do the following 2 lessons
• Demonstrating Good Work Ethic (R)
• Behaving Appropriately (R)

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab
• Engineering Projects
• ROBOTS - Don't Drive Off The Table Project
•  Magician Chassis 
• Building a robot: Dagu Magician Chassis & Arduino 
•  Building an Arduino Robot, Part I: Hardware Components 
• L9110 H-bridge module

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Entrance Ticket - Check out Hackster.IO

•  Learn to design, create, and program electronics.  Sign up to start getting the email newsletter and alerts.  We are going to be doing some of these Arduino and RaspberryPi projects in the future
   

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:20 - -Welcome to Job Ready Career Skills
  
      www.jobreadycareerskills.com
      Login using username flast.svcte and password Fc342487
      Rest your password — and remember it!

• 8:20 - 9:20 - Open LAB
• Engineering Project
• Don't Fall off the Table Robot

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 7, 2017 - Evil Mad Scientist

Entrance Ticket - Check out Evil Mad Scientist - https://www.evilmadscientist.com/

• Tell me what their Mission Statement is?  Does it make it clear what their goals are.
• What products do they build?
• How big is their company?  

 Be ready to discuss
 
Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:10 -Last effort to work on Limit Switch Code

• 8:10 - 8:40 - Engineering Project

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Don't Fall Off The Table Robot
• http://www.steamclown.org/steamClownEducation/DIYRoboCars/roboCars.pdf

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 6, 2017 - RoboGames Anyone?

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - C++ Code for Limit Switch Project
• see https://github.com/jimTheSTEAMClown/arduinoCode/blob/master/steamClass_LeftRightMotor  
• TinkerCAD link https://www.tinkercad.com/things/1oe7dpMwZQe-copy-of-tremendous-gogo/editel?sharecode=Sli6wmwLf3-SRxdDWZIkc5cz5ErDM1kHT68eIM7FfgY=

• 8:00 - 8:40 - Engineering Project - Arduino - Let me see your code if you are coding something...

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Robots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• RoboGames Home Page 
• Events  You Can Enter

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 5, 2017 - Will Robots and AI Kill Us?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/16723238/ai-artificial-intelligence-progress-index

Entrance Ticket - Artificial intelligence isn’t as clever as we think, but that doesn’t stop it being a threat

•  Are AI outperforming Humans?  Is this by a significant amount?
• When related to Graphs and Charts, what does "it’s all up and to the right” mean?
• In 2016, how many AI startup companies where there?
• If a computer can do one-third of your job, what happens next?  What do you want to happen? 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:10 - FlexFactor - Who is doing what on your team.  List and submit all your team members roles.  Specifically what are you doing?

• 8:10 - 8:40 - C++ Code

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab

• 8:40 - 9:20 - 

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 4, 2017

Entrance Ticket - Please review these slides and have 3 questions ready for a topic or slide you did not understand. BusinessBasics-EVC.pdf
Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:20 - FlexFacor program review
• Grading
• FlexFactorOverviewPresentation

• 8:00 - 8:30 - FlexFactor Slides
• SamplePresentation

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Flex Factor - Mr Philip Tran
• BusinessBasics-EVC.pdf

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Dec 1, 2017 - C++ Coding and Fex Factor

Entrance Ticket - Get a bigger Box

• Find your "small" project box
• Make sure you still have an Arduino
• Get your "bigger" box.  If you need to, get a new bigger box
• Put your small project box in your bigger box
• Find your sticker with your names.... place on the front and right side... Make sure you do this right.... as I will take points off if you do it wrong
• Pull off the manufacture sticker
• Put your project box in the big student cabinet on the 3nd shelf.

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:30 - C++ Code
• http://www.steamclown.org/steamClownEducation/arduino/cProgramming/limitSwitch2.pdf

//This is how to start the motor "left" or CCW. 
    analogWrite(motorDriveSpeedPin, 100);//Sets speed variable via PWM
    digitalWrite(motorDirectionPin1, LOW);
    digitalWrite(motorDirectionPin2, HIGH);
    Serial.println("Motor 1 Left"); // Prints out “Motor 1 Forward” on the serial monitor
    //Serial.println("   "); // Creates a blank line printed on the serial monitor


//This is how to stop the motor
    analogWrite(motorDriveSpeedPin, 0);//Sets speed variable via PWM
    digitalWrite(motorDirectionPin1, LOW);
    digitalWrite(motorDirectionPin2, LOW);
    Serial.println("Motor 1 STOPPED");
    Serial.println("   ");

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Flex Factor - Mr Philip Tran
• BusinessBasics-EVC.pdf

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup