BEETs@WSU August 2014
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Contents
Overview
Day 1
Introductions
- Dom, Tom, and John
- Mentors
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
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
Materials at hand
- Mechanical
- Electrical I
- Electrical II
- Arduino
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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
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
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.
- ???
Microcontrollers (and the Arduino)
- Demo
- 50 Billion Mile High Overview of 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)
- ???