Educational Program Manager / Instructor Fabiola Hanna is a New Media Artist with an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz. Her work is about people, technology and seeking practical solutions. She explores ideas that might help communities t...
This week long workshop introduces the structure, syntax, and programming paradigm of the Java™ language and platform. Students will learn the Java syntax you are most likely to encounter in the professional and research world and Java programming idiom...
On the 20th, we worked on assembling a junk bot; as we had limited knowledge and supplies, we primarily made sculpture-like bots or assembled rudimentary ones. My group assembled a dragon-like sculpture of a bot, with various scavenged parts. We used ...
Today we learned how to add a picture to our sketches. With this technique you can make simple animated sketches more complex and creative. For example, Kieu was able to make her penguin move and added a hat and a mouth. I wasn’t able to finish my P...
we finnaly finnished our final robot. its called the beatlebot 2. it took us the whole day to complete it. we didnt think it would though cause its small. i had a fun time making it. when it hits something it hits the switch then it turns around. the moto...
Today me and Matthew built our very own bettle bot. It is a robot that was 1.5 volt motors attached to a AA battery holder. It took many tedious hours but it was very fun to watch it scuttle across the table.The attenas act as sensors so when they hit a ...
Our robot did not even come close to being completed. We had a really good idea, though. But due to numerous, impassable setbacks the robot does not work. It was supposed to be a light organ on wheels, but the body had holes, the motors did not work, we l...
Today, me and my crew, built a robot with a arduino chip. It took a long time about 8 hours and we had to cut down on alot of feature,. For example, we couldn’t use the nunchuck and
Today me and my group of Noah and Justin tried to build and program a robot with an arduino that could light up and roll around but were not able to complete it due to the amount of time and some set backs so Justin has kindly decided to take it home and ...
Today we built a rolling robot. It was made of peanut butter jar ends and CD-ROM casings, rubber bands, tape, LOTS OF TAPE, wires, and etc. It took about seven hours to make. Rahul was the Project Head, and mechanic. Ashwin as the Co-Head and Logistics ...
Today, we worked on assembling a robot for our final project. Due to some unexpected changes in events, and a lack of supplies, I decided to work on a mechanical, automatically turning robot car…mess…thing. Sam dubbed it the “Samurai...
Well. Final day, final robot. I worked with two others named Justin and Nicholas. We had a good idea, but it did not come to fruition. The conception and design went flawlessly, but construction failed. We knew what we were going to do, but could not do i...
Today is my last day of DIY Robotics. Today we built a Lizard Walking Thing “Robot”. It has 3 servos, 1 battery pack, and 1 arduino lilly pad. It was suposed to walk like a lizard but it had a bug in it so it didn’t work very well. We us...
Today, we worked solely on building our Arduino robot. It was basically a 3 wheel vehicle, with the two rear wheels powered by servos. After working for hours, we were finally able to build it. It still has a few bugs, but I guess it was pretty good for o...
Today we built a robot it was fun. First we got most of our supplies together then we had to wait until Mrs. Fabiola got our servos and Arduino lily pad. We waited for the parts and after lunch we worked on our robot. the only problem was the lily pad had...
At the beginning, I was making a flower. A flower represents my personality. Every petal shows my development that will never stop, always advancing progressively. However, when I started to work on the flower, it transformed into a new specimen, a pineap...
