cca_robotics_2024

Lesson plans for the CCA 24-25 robotics academic year

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Robotics @ CCA in 2024

Lesson plans for the CCA 24-25 robotics academic year.

Module: Manufacturing Design Elements

In manufacturing robotics, we need to establish some basics elements of design before diving into building full robots.

• Gripping:
  • Clever Contraptions: #22, 23, 25
  • Idea Book: p 96, 244
    • Challenge: grip the red ball. But make them sit together for 5 minutes to discuss ideas. Then break out and build.
• Lifting:
  • Clever Contraptions: #14, 16
  • Idea Book: pg 104
• Gears:
  • Simple Machines: #1, 7, 12, 15, 18
  • Idea Book: the last one above directly moves toward #87
• Turn Tables:
  • Simple Machines: #38, 39, 40
  • Idea Book: pg 50

Now let’s look at some full builds using these basic design elements:

• Fork Lift: instructions
• Crane: instructions. This req’s string
• Color Sorter: instructions. This one is very hhelpful since it is an simpler sorter concept to dig into prior to introducing the advanced sorter below.

Introduce the degree of freedom concept.

Challenge build: build a 2DOF robot that grips a ball and lifts it over a wall. The arm may not be on a vehicle; it must be stationary.

Uncategorized Content:

• the students are interested in building the rubik’s cube sorter in the activity book. Need to figure out where this fits.

Module: Playing with Machine Learning

Using just lego elements, we’ll dive into ML to learn how this is helpful in robots designed for manufacturing tasks.

• Lego Tutorial for Audio Recognition
• Lego Tutorial for Video Recognition

Challenge build: a robot that picks up the red ball but rejects anything else presented to it, is activated by a voice command.

• Lego Sorter

Bigger Topics in Robotics

I want to introduce these as topics, but not dive in.

• Medical Robotics

• Flying Robots

• Cleaning Robots
  • Vacuum
  • Lawnmower
• Anthropological Robots
  • I, Robot introduces philosophical concerns about robots
  • The Jettsons also