Friday, May 11, 2018

Friday May 11, 2018 - Robot Projects

Open Lab time - Robot Project, Coding Project, Vex Robot Project
  • Make sure you turn in your "What I did today in Open Lab" form.   
  • If you work on your Robot Project, make sure you update your Robot project page and make a blog post. Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Thursday May 10, 2018 - End OF Year Survey & Robot Projects

Entrance Ticket - End Of Year Survey
 Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 9:10 - Open Lab time - Robot Project, Coding Project, Vex Robot Project
    • Make sure you turn in your "What I did today in Open Lab" form.   
    • If you work on your Robot Project, make sure you update your Robot project page and make a blog post. Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Wednesday 9, 2018 - Guest Speaker - 911SafeTracker

Entrance Ticket - Maker Faire
 Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 8:20 - Robot Safety Logic Circuit
    • Lecture - Signals from Robot Workcell Safety Equipment - PDF Presentation
    • LAB - Draw a Robot Safety Logic Circuit.  
      • Pair/Share - Get into a pair... can be different the safety acctivity
      • Discuss a Robot Workcell.  Identify, list and label all signals for any safety equipment in your Robot Workcell.
      • Draw the logic needed to do this.  You can use https://logic.ly/demo/ if you would like to simulate.  Turn in a Logic Schematics showing the AND and OR gates for your Robot Workcell for your team.  Use the paper and pencils on the book shelf.  One page per team.  Put both your names on it.
  • 8:20 - 9:20 - Chuck Roedel - Co-Founder of 911Tracker.com
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Tuesday May 8, 2018 - Robot Workcell Safety Logic

Entrance Ticket - Robotics Industry Insights - Safety First: A Review of Robotic Safeguarding Devices and Issues
  • New Vocabulary
    • Overriding
    • Safegarding
    • Integration challenges
    • Risk-assessment
    • Appropriate
  • Spend 5 min reading this article and be ready to discuss the following questions:
    • What is the overriding interest of a manufacturer, with their Robots?
    • Whenever a safeguarding device signals a robot to stop, what should have happened?
    • It is not necessarily the robot that is the only danger.  What other things could be dangerous in a Robot work cell?
    • What is ANSI/RIA R15.06-1999?
 Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 8:40 - 9:20 -Setup 8th grade Mechatronics Demo in the hub
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Monday, May 7, 2018

Monday May 7, 2018 - 3 Weeks... Let's Do Some Lightning Projects...

Entrance Ticket - Projects that make a difference and can actually change the world..
    • 100 - 200  words in IC to post your thoughts on this technology.
      • It's getting used in Baltimore harbor, where else could it get used?
      • What might need to be changed to work other places?
      • If you were going to build a trash collector, what would it do and how would it work?
 Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:45 - 8:00 - Entry Ticket Discussion
  • 8:00 - 8:15 - What's in your box that you are not using... lets start sorting.  
    • Keep your Arduino's
    • But I want you to start sorting out any resistors, breadboards and other components.
  • 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab time - Robot Project
    • Make sure you turn in your "What I did today in Open Lab" form.  
    • If you work on your Robot Project, make sure you update your Robot project page and make a blog post. Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Thursday May 3, 2018 - More Counters

Entry Ticket: What is your name?   Use this form to enter the exact spelling of your name you want on your Mechatronics Certificate

Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Tuesday May 1, 2018 - Counters


 Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 8:20 - 8:40 - - Open Lab time - VEX Robot Project
    • Make sure you turn in your "What I did today in Open Lab" form.  
    • If you work on your Robot Project, make sure you update your Robot project page and make a blog post. Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup