- Create a drawing visualisation machine and produce 3 drawings from it.
We (Christine, Sonny, Nick, Charlotte A, Theresa, Ricki, Daniel and I) all began discussing our ideas and brainstorming on Friday afternoon and came up with 1 main idea which we all seemed to like.
Monday 15th March 2010:
We began developing and constructing the idea further until we came up with a final solution. We decided upon having a robot controlling a remote controlled car which was controlled by sound, and having a robot on top of the remote control car which controlled the different medias that would create the drawings, which would be controlled by flashing light. We then began constructing. As we constructed the idea of having a theme came up where we decided to have a "party" theme, which then resulted in the robot having a name "The PartyBot".
Tuesday 16th March 2010:
The Day began with everyone meeting at Mag Warehouse at St Johns to begin our project of creating a drawing visualisation machine that would create a peice of art. During the day we ran into several problems such as the canvas being a black colour, which meant having to change the vivid marker to a paint tube to allow the media to be seen on the canvas. We also had problems with the robot on the remote controlled car, as it would not squeeze the paint tubes. We had to thin the paint down with water in order to get the paint out of the tube while the remote control car was in action. We also decided to have 1 canvas and have 3 layers on it to show the relationship between the different songs.
Overall I thought this project was good, I enjoyed working with my team. I enjoyed the day out getting our drawing machines to create art. I wouldnt be in any mad rush to create a robot in future though because I haven't played with lego as a kid, i didnt really know what I was doing, and found that creating a stand for our remote control car took alot longer than what i expected it to..
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