User:Hkang0839/enes100/Ballbot
Link back to team BBotz
Week0 Activities
[edit | edit source]Give instructor top 3 project choice list
[edit | edit source]My top three project choices were Strandbeest, biofeedback, and ballbot, in that order. The project I am currently working on is Ballbot. Our team name is called Bbotz.
Write problem statement
[edit | edit source]The goal is to make the Ballbot stand on its head and remotely rotate a basketball balanced in its wheels.
Assign Task1
[edit | edit source]I took pictures of the Ballbots
Week1 Activities
[edit | edit source]Compare actual work done to Task1
[edit | edit source]Learned to upload photos on wiki media
Week1 Narrative
[edit | edit source]I have Uploaded all the photos to wikimedia. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ballbot Upload photos to wikimedia. Had problems of getting pictures being banned because of the name.
Week1 Peer Review
[edit | edit source]Went to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then went to the associated discussion page. Said something positive on the page. Added my name and 9/19/2011, good job on helping with naming the parts of the Ballbot Kang 20:32, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Assign Task2
[edit | edit source]The team have just started to plan things about our project. One of the team member wasn't here last class when the team was being assigned and the time frame was to short.
Week2 Activities
[edit | edit source]Compare actual work done to Task2
[edit | edit source]Got sick over the weekend. will try to put more effort to make up. Did some research on youtube over the weekend about diferent ways we build the robot. Wrote this in my notebook. We are trying to get another wowwee robot and take it apart and build our own.
Week2 Narrative
[edit | edit source]We asked our professor to order more wowwee robot so we can get started on building out robot. For the rest of the week we will try to work the remote and build a stance to keep the robot still on a flat surface. We realize we couldnt do anything yet without the robot so we are going to pull some ideas over the weekend. Teddy and I are going to idvidually build a base or create something to hold the wheel. Corey is going to work on the remote.
Week2 Peer Review
[edit | edit source]Went to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then went to the associated discussion page. Said something positive on the page. Added my name and 9/26/2011, good job on the pictures Kang 20:32, 19 September 2011 (UTC) commented on team
Assign Task3
[edit | edit source]To discuss with the team member. Our conclusion is to work indvidually over the weekend and combine or compare it together on monday when the wowwee robot gets in.
Week3 Activities
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[edit | edit source]Thought of different ways to use the base but failed. The metal bins would be to hard.
Week3 Narrative
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Back of Mini ballbot
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The base
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The Motor
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Wheels
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The back of Minibot
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Front of Mini ballbot
Week3 Peer Review
[edit | edit source]Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.
Assign Task4
[edit | edit source]The "ballbot" came in on Monday but instead of what we need was a minibot. We took it apart and took the motor out but realize everything is useless. This week, we hope that the second ballbot will be better. For the week and the weekend we will try to finish up the project.
Today, I messed around with motor.
Week4 Activities
[edit | edit source]Compare actual work done to Task4
[edit | edit source]Rationalize differences
Week4 Narrative
[edit | edit source]Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.
Week4 Peer Review
[edit | edit source]Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.
Complete Project Page
[edit | edit source]Follow the "project done" format.
Start Next Project Week0 activities
[edit | edit source]During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.