Review of Robotics

This is my last blog for my Robotics class. I have had a great experience in Robotics class. I liked this class very much. On the first day, we started to build the robot. I guess, without the instruction manual for how to build the robot, no one would have been able to make it!! But, as the class went on, we got more used to the parts of the robot.I had never known that LEGOcould be so coplex.There were some students in the class who made extremely cool and fascinating robots. The "Goliath" made by Bart and Kenny was truly a classic.

Another fascinating thing I liked about this class was using the LEGO MINDSTORM software to program the NXT. This was something new to me and it was very interesting because we were making software on the computer and then transferring it to the NXT. we could basically make any software we wanted and the robot would do what we liked- provided that we programmed the software properly. As we got more and more knowledge about robotics, we learned how to make more complex software using the sensors etc.

Another thing I like about the NXT ROBOT was the different types of sound sensors it uses. There were four sensors. They were the touch, light and utrasonic and the sound sensor. The touch sensor is a sensor which besically continues to program when it is pressed, released or both before continuing.The light sensor reads the light value of the light which it senses.The sound sensor basically records the level of the sound which has been emmitted from a ceratin place and the Utrasonic sensor basicvally measures the distance between the robot and an object.the way it does that is that it sends out ultrasonic rays and the rays bounce back if they hit an object. We were able to use all of them. we had done an investigation for each of the sensors. After we had done an investigaiton for all of the sensors, we then had a challenge set by Mr Inskeep. In that challenge, we had to use all of the sensors of the robot to complete a course. We had to use all of our knowledge to do that. It was a challenging course.

Overall, this class has been a very good experience for me and I enjoyed every moment of this Robotics experience.