Robotics With Miss Choufin

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Also known as the red planet from its oxidized iron. Mars is really rocky so our tracks will be able to go over them easily. Our lander will be strong enough to go over the sand dunes as well. The nuclear battery is going to last a long time as well.

Robots are very interesting thing. They are human made objects that can be programmed to do thing humans do. Robots can also be made to look like humans or to look like machines. The robots normally have tasks set for them to complete. The tasks can range from something simple like sharpening a pencil to a machine that diagnoses people for illness. The robots are made from many different materials such as metal, plastic, hard materials, glass and many others.  Some robots have sensors used for things such as to find metal or to sense if something is in front of them. Robots are often sent to mars to find new information us human can't.

Sphero: The sphere is a round robot that we have used a few times. We had to use the Ipad to connect to it with Bluetooth.

Edison: The Edison is an orange rectangle with 2 wheels. It can move with claps. One claps makes it turn once then 2 claps make it go forward.

Ozobot: The Ozobot is a round robot that comes with special pens. The pens make tracks for the robot to follow. It can follow any line made by the pens.

The design process
We first sketched the diagram shown below and then started thinking of different ideas and designs to make our model better. The Lego one on the right is our end model you can see the difference from paper to Lego. we changed the shape and the different elements such as the nuclear battery and the censors.