Engineering Design Process:
Your teacher will discuss how engineers plan for a project and you will use this process to plan your robot.
You will learn about constraints, requirements, planning, prototyping, testing, and improving!
You will learn about constraints, requirements, planning, prototyping, testing, and improving!
Plan out a design for your arm and base. Your building materials will be cardboard, K’nex, or maybe more!
You will learn about constraints, research different ways to make robot arms, and you will then draw out a plan for your arm. You will build prototypes with any extra time in the day.
You will learn about constraints, research different ways to make robot arms, and you will then draw out a plan for your arm. You will build prototypes with any extra time in the day.
Constraints (Ask, Research)
We first have to know our robot arm's constraints (limitations, expectations) before we design it.
Write out the headers below and we will go through the first 3 steps of the engineering design process to answer each one (Ask, Research, Imagine).
We will then share your plan with a classmate/teacher.
Intended Function: What will you want your robot arm to be able to do (wave, shake, pick up and put down what item, etc)
Size and Shape: How big or small can my robot be? Will this shape and size requirement allow it to do the function above?
Quality and Reliability: How sturdy will your robot have to be? How long should it last?
Corporate Objectives/Culture: What does this class need from me and my robot? Will I work in a team?
Risk Tolerance: What happens if my robot breaks and how will I take failure? How ambitious do I want to be?
Price Expectation: What supplies am I allowed to use and how many of each type am I allowed to use?
Technology Limitations: Will I be able to learn how to make the robot do the function that I chose and do? Can the Arduino do it?
Resource Allocations: Considering supplies given to me, will I want to share or ask others to share some items with me? What are those?
Scheduling: When is my completed and working robot arm due? What are mini-deadlines I can set for different parts to be done?
Design Tools: What tools are available to help me learn or where could I look things up help to make my robot arm?
Write out the headers below and we will go through the first 3 steps of the engineering design process to answer each one (Ask, Research, Imagine).
We will then share your plan with a classmate/teacher.
Intended Function: What will you want your robot arm to be able to do (wave, shake, pick up and put down what item, etc)
Size and Shape: How big or small can my robot be? Will this shape and size requirement allow it to do the function above?
Quality and Reliability: How sturdy will your robot have to be? How long should it last?
Corporate Objectives/Culture: What does this class need from me and my robot? Will I work in a team?
Risk Tolerance: What happens if my robot breaks and how will I take failure? How ambitious do I want to be?
Price Expectation: What supplies am I allowed to use and how many of each type am I allowed to use?
Technology Limitations: Will I be able to learn how to make the robot do the function that I chose and do? Can the Arduino do it?
Resource Allocations: Considering supplies given to me, will I want to share or ask others to share some items with me? What are those?
Scheduling: When is my completed and working robot arm due? What are mini-deadlines I can set for different parts to be done?
Design Tools: What tools are available to help me learn or where could I look things up help to make my robot arm?
Design (Imagine/Plan)
Now that you have researched the constraints above, take out another sheet of paper and do the (Imagine, Plan) part of the engineering design process. Develop and talk with your classmates about solutions to your constraints and draw out a plan for your robot arm. Try to draw things out to scale (aka as big as you actually want things to be).