Design CYCLE

In the design cycle you have to do certain steps and do them in order to make something like a robot. the first step of the design cycle is investigate, in the investigate we looked at robots. we found a various amount of information while we were looking at the investigation. the next step of the design cycle is planning, when you are planning you just find how and what you are going to create, then the next step is creating what you planned and because you investigated and planned you are now ready for the create. the last step of the design cycle is evaluate, in the evaluate you just reflect on the disadvantages and advantages of the whole project you are creating and you can also say what you have learnt and how it is useful in life.

Evaluation and Reflection

What worked well in this project?

Many things worked well in this projects. For an example, making win logo codes was very successful and we made, 2d, 3d and animations.

What did not work in this project?

There where some things that did not work well in this project and one of those things are, making programs for the robots that we where asked to do, another thing that did not work was robot lab, robot lab had a glitch was that we couldn't program a robot to do what we want the robot to do.

What could be improved?

Things in this project can be improved like the way you do things on the wiki spaces site, because may times it was lagging, and it is much harder to use unlike Microsoft word.

How can these things be improved?

Maybe the wiki spaces site can be changed so it is much easier to make blogs on the wiki space site. Changing the font and size was very confusing so if it was similar to the word Microsoft document. There should also be a save button because there where many times in the past where i lost most of my work, there is a save button but again the wiki spaces site is very slow and it is confusing when it asks me to recover a draft because either way you would loose your work and that is one of the biggest problem. there also is not a spelling check button and sometimes that is very useful because sometimes when people read the wiki we mean something and people don't understand something and plus, people are usually making mistakes on the wiki and other things will come up. one of the biggest problems on wiki is PUTTING PICTUES AND VIDEOS! that takes a very long time and it is confusing!

Reflection for investagation

For the past 10 days we have started a new unit that was all about robots and how to make one. at the beggining we started at figuring out what a robot is made out of. For that i wrote some information such as A robot is a machine that neds power that can go into places that a human cant.an example to proof that is it can stay underwater for as long as it can.a robot is a autonomous machine that doesnt neeed food but it needs power.it also can be useful because it doesnt need to sleep but humans need to.another good thing about robots is that if you own a car company you dontneed to pay for the four things that make up a robot which are actuators,power, sensors and it needs a proceser. anothr thing i wrote is the three things of what robots are made up of, those three things are: Sensors are to inform about the environment and to let the robot know where to go.there are alot of diferent types of sensors such as line sensor, a line sensor only follows lines andsometimes it can get trapped inbetween a circle of lines.
Power:these are the wheelsA robot needs a battery so it can work, therefore the battery can besolar powered and energy powered but it will still make the robot moveso it can do what it needs to.Actuators:this is just control gear, levers, wheels, pulleys, and other outputdevices to keep the job going and done.Processorsthe processors can control the robot and basically tell the robot what action toperform depending on the sensors. it can be proximity sensors or white line sensors. disadvantges and advantages are:

• Advantages
  that robots can go to places where humans cant go such as underwater and in space such as the mars rover.
  they can work with acuracy
  they can work as long as they have batterys
  they can work for a long time and you dont have to feed them
  they can work very quickly
  they can give people jobs such as when they controll it people can process them and deighn them there is a certian quality
  products will turn out the same and there wont be differences
  

• Disadvantages
  people will lose jobs
  they are expensive
  sometimes malfunctions
  needs lots of care
  very sensitive robots
  there won t be anything rare or uniche
  some people will lose money

Evaluation:

The design of our project made it better because with the animoto it looks like a professional video instead of a normal slideshow it is also more entertaining. A weakness of the presentation is that if the voice thread was public then you could not view it on your blog. An other weakness is that when the animoto stops it sometimes stops in a bad time which made our project worse. Strength for this project was that if you didn’t get an of information then you explain so much on the voice thread and then you can get a better mark on the presentation. The last strength was that you can go to your blog and put it on there for other people to see. It could have been improved by giving more information about how it could have been educational in a class room. I would recommend other students to do this unit because first it shows you how to use animoto and voice thread for other reasons. But I would also recommend only doing the voice thread and making it around 10 minutes long so they can have the chance of telling all the information they can say because we can’t.

voicethread

animoto

voicethread

today we finished the voice thread and we showed the teacher and she made us fix it because there where a lot of problems for an example the pictures where not used in the class.