BEETs@WSU August 2014

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Overview

Day 1

9:00AM/1:30PM: Introductions

  • Dom, Tom, and John
  • Mentors
    • Mentors are your best asset:
      • WSU Students
      • Will be circulating
      • They are here to help you

Demo: Goofy's Dream

The Plan

  • One humongoloid Rube Goldberg machine
  • Each group of 3-4 makes a part of the machine
  • All the machines will connect

Intention for the week

  • This better be fun!
  • There's a presentation at the end: everybody should see our "liquid awesome."
  • Practice hands-on engineering and problem solving

Schedule for the Week

  • Today: Get cozy and snuggle up with the materials at hand
  • Tomorrow, start digging in!

Rules of the Game

  • Keep it fun!
  • Love everything: the materials, the tools, your team, and us :-)
  • If discouraged, it’s OK. Confusion is part of the process. Hang ten, dude.
  • Collaborate

9:15AM/1:45PM Intro to the Materials: Overview

New Improved: now with iteration!

The Iterative Process (repeat 4 times)

  • We demo
  • What You Need To Know
  • Some challenges
  • You demo

Demo Format

30 seconds:

  • Your name
  • Name of Team
  • Name of each member of your group
  • The challenge your team took on
  • Demo solution with explanation
  • What you would do differently

A different member of the team should explain the demo for each demo session

Materials at hand

  • Mechanical
  • Electrical I
  • Electrical II
  • Arduino

9:30AM/2:00PM: Mechanical Stuff

  • Demo
  • Challenges: Each group does one of these or something else
    • make something move using the wheels
    • use a rubber band to controllably power something (nothing moving freely in the air)
    • use the gears to make something move faster or slower.
    • balance something using a dowel
    • make a channel for a ball using the foam
    •  ???
  • Form in teams
  • Get materials (only related to mechanics. No electrical)
  • Challenge Session
  • Demos

10:15AM/2:45PM: Electrical stuff

  • Demo
  • Overview of electricity
    • resistors
    • LED
    • motor
    • switch
  • Challenges
    • light an LED (but...Don’t blow it!)
    • control the motor with a switch
    • make the motor lift something heavy
    • make the motor spin a shaft
    • spin a CD with the motor
    •  ???
  • Get materials (only related to mechanics and electrical. No electronics)
  • Challenge Session
  • Demos

11:00AM/3:30PM More complicated electrics: The Breadboard

  • Demo
  • Overview of the breadboard
  • Challenges:
    • light LED 3 different ways using the Breadboard
    • using a magnet, magnet sensor switch and breadboard, make something that turns on both the motor and an LED when you move the magnet to a switch.
    •  ???

11:45AM/4:15PM Microcontrollers (and the Arduino)

  • Demo
  • 50 Billion Mile High Overview of Arduino
  • One member of each team gets a closer look at the Arduino while the others log into computers etc.
  • The selected member goes back and gets the rest of their team "up to speed" on the arduino
    • Challenges:
    • get LED to blink.
    • Change the speed of the blink
    • get LED to fade
    • control fade with potentiometer
    • control blink speed with variable resistor (potentiometer)
    •  ???

12:30PM/5:00PM: Sayonara

  • Reflection with Mentors