Today was a very fun and exciting day. We learned some of the basics of circuits and their manipulation, and we used hands-on activities to learn how circuits work, and a few of their different components, including power source, LED’s, wires, resis...
Today, we brought different things in from home for us to hack. Many of the kids here brought a box-full of broken, old, or simply not wanted electrical gadgets, but I couldn’t really find anything that I could risk getting bricked, so I settled for...
On the second day, we actually didn’t finish with just breaking open an old cellphone. Our next project was a SquigglyBot, as you can see above. It was basically made up of a computer fan, with a few blades missing. This made the fan imbalanced, cau...
After wrecking the SquigglyBot, the team and I decided to do the next best thing: open up an expensive printer. One of our team members (Ashwin) had brought an old printer that he didn’t want anymore, so we were happy to dispose of it for him. Remov...
Today was the 3rd day of the workshop, and we worked on building our own JunkBot; a junkbot is basically something that you make through salvaging parts from old or unwanted household things, or junk, hence the name. We had a few prototypes in mind, but...
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...
