Creative Inventions and Robotics

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Welcome to the
Laboratory
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Radical Mechanical Botanical Garden
Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-you
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The Problem
The Department of Important Inventions is
looking for a few smart ladies and some
hairy-chested men to save the world from vile
villains who build dirty mean machines . . .
and scurrilous scoundrels who make a
mess.                     
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Our Mission
To save our good earth, we must build a computer
controlled, radical mechanical botanical garden
complete with outrageous plants, exotic bugs,
creepy worms and cuckoo birds grown from
recycled, premium quality junk.
Amorous Frogs
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Our Mission
To save our good earth, we must turn trash into
treasure.
The Cuckoo
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Our Mission
To save our good earth, we must turn trash into
treasure.
The exotic Evening Bloomer
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Our Mission
To save our good earth, we must turn trash into
treasure.
The rare Butterfly Bonita
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Our Mission
To save our good earth, we must turn trash into
treasure.
Dancing Flowers
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Our Mission
To save our good earth, we must turn trash into
treasure.
The feared Stingbot
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Team Introductions

• Favs
• Project
• Hero
• Hobby
• Quote
• Least favorite thing to do
• 30 Seconds!!!

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Law of the Lab
1) Respect teammates Did you share ideas, help someone or lead your team?
2) Respect your lab Did you clean up, take care of tools and sort parts?
3) Dont do stupid stuff Did you do anything you would not want your parents or teacher to know?
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Consequences

• If you dont follow the rules, you must apologize
  to your teammates
• Strike 1 Warning.
• Strike 2 Parent must sign a note.
• Strike 3 - May be kicked off the team.

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Extreme Building

• Multiple brains are better than one.
• Share ideas.

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Lets Make 4 Teams (2-3 members per team)

• Each team member will take turns keyboarding and
  building.
• The others will help by sharing ideas.

The Duck Team
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Build-It-Yourself
Lab Book
Seth and John
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Set up your Lab Book

• Download your lab book template.
• Go to the Web site www.build-it-yourself.com
• Click on Go next to Projectware
• Click on Presentations
• Double click on Lab Book Template
• Save your lab book.
• If your lab book is not open, go to your desktop
  and double click on biy-lab-book-template.ppt to
  open it.
• Click on File / Save As.
• Create a new folder in My Documents titled your
  teams names, jim-jane-john.
• Name your lab book, biy-lab-book-jim-jane-john.ppt
  .
• Click on Save.

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The Problem
Describe the problem.
The Mission
Describe your mission.
Seth and John
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Garden Flowers and Critters

• Layout a collection of premium quality junk
• Unusual playful shapes
• Colorful
• Light

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Garden Flowers and Critters
Pick an unusual shape and see if you can
transform it into a flower by adding colorful
beads, pipe cleaners and other craft materials.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
Try to make your sculpture look good from all
directions. When building models, we have the
advantage of 3 dimensions. Your design may say
more if you use all three dimensions.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The rare and delicate Orcabot
Red Foamie sheet, colorful beads, sink drain,
golf T, large bottle cap, electric wiring cap,
pipe cleaner.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The rare and delicate Orcabot
Cut our 6x1/2 red strips and hot glue the ends
in a loop. Glue them to the drain. Wrap the pipe
cleaner around a pencil and glue the stems and
golf T to the bottle cap.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The rare and delicate Orcabot
Hot glue the beads to the petals. Hot glue the
drain to the end of the golf T.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The always hungry Frolicking Frog
Youll need pipe cleaners, bottle caps, red paper
clip, beads, white cardboard or Foamies for eyes,
and a sheet a green Foamies for the feet.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The always hungry Frolicking Frog
Hot glue 2 bottle caps together so they look like
an open mouth. Glue the big feet on the pipe
cleaner legs and the small feet on the bottle
caps. Make BIG expressive eyes!
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The Belligerent Bionic Bug
The plastic bag is good for bug wings although
you cant see them in the picture. Hook up wire
makes great legs and antennae.
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Garden Flowers and Critters
The rare Temptation Rosebot
Red felt, pipe cleaners, jacks, beads, green
pencil, marker cap and bottle cap.
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Frog vs Bug Game Sensors
Sensor to detect bug flying
Mount a light sensor on a platform. Put a black
circle above the light sensor that the bug can
knock off when it flies by. Decorate the black
circle with a flower.
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Frog vs Bug Game Sensors
Sensor to detect frog hits flower and bug.
Mount a light sensor on a platform. Put a black
circle above the light sensor with a flower on
top that the frog can knock off when it jumps at
the bug.
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Frog Test Program
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Frog vs. Bug Program
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Frog vs. Bug Flow Chart Logic
Start
Wait until GO button
Run bug catcher motor for 6 seconds
Yes
Is bug flying?
Run bug song
No
Yes
Did frog hit flower?
Run frog song
No
Run bug song
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Frog vs. Bug Program
Send 10 Bug wins sound effect Send 20 Frog
wins sound effect
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