Project Description
Robotics club
Course Description
The Cornerstone Robotics Club serves to expose students to fundamental mechanics and electronics concepts through hands-on learning with robotics. Through participation in this club, students will apply interdisciplinary science and math concepts to create functional robots that can achieve various goals.
Learning Objectives
Through participation in this club, students will learn:
· Fundamental physics concepts (i.e. levers, gears)
· Fundamental electronics concepts (i.e. battery power distribution, computer processor operations)
· Fundamental programming concepts (i.e. structured commands, data input/output, if-then statements, loops)
Course Format
The Cornerstone Robotics Club will be a combination of brief lectures interspersed with a significant amount of hands-on lab activity. Club activities are formatted for a normal semester. Club sessions are nominally 90 minutes in length and scheduled once per week.
Course Grading Scale – No grades will be given for this club-level activity.
Assignments
Occasional light reading or project planning may be assigned to enable club members to get the most out of the classroom activities.
Expectations:
Club members are simply expected to apply their best effort, respect the club equipment, and fully participate during the club period.
In Robotics II,
students will use the Arduino processor to learn the basics of the C programming language while creating different robots. Arduino-based robots are not the kind that move around like cars but more like every day use robots, which can be embedded in appliances, toys, or machines. For instance, the students will learn how to make a wireless doorbell or a motion detector. Through a series of small projects, students will also learn about basic circuitry and how to manage the electricity going into their robots. NOTE: Each student must have a laptop computer to participate in Robotics II. Additionally, each student must purchase an Arduino project kit for their own use. The specific kit will be coordinated by the Tutor 60 days prior to the course and is expected to cost less than $100.
