Friday, December 8, 2017

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

Thursday, December 7, 2017

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
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Dec 6, 2017 - RoboGames Anyone?


Class Agenda:

  • 8:00 - 8:40 - Engineering Project - Arduino - Let me see your code if you are coding something...
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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

Monday, December 4, 2017

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)
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Friday, December 1, 2017

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)
//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("   ");

  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Nov 30, 2017 C++ Code Top Down Design, and Project Open Lab

Entrance Ticket - Pick a Electronic Component from the list

Class Agenda:

  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 8:40 - C++ Lab

  • 8:40 - 9:20 - Robot Club and Open Lab
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup