Monday, March 5, 2007

Rubber Band

What was the design problem?

Where do we start building? First time we touched the legos and wondering how to put the pieces together that weren't just square/rectangle blocks.

What were the mechanical issues you had to deal with? How did you make these decisions?

Fitting the odd pieces together were hard. We first had to figure out how to make the pieces connect in the first place. Weird tubeby pieces hooking with little holes in blocks. How do they go together snuggly?

What pre-existing knowledge on you team, how did you come up with ideas solutions?
Apparently, I was not skilled at all with constructing with legos, but some teams members were very creative with building with legos. They manage to build an okay design in the short amount of time we had. We just played around quite a bit with the pieces.

When you made changes, did you get the expected results?

When we made changes, some parts of the robot would fall apart. The robot seemed like a delicate thing to tamper with if the base of the body was not stable connecting the wheels.

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