Jammin' With the JeffTech Crew

Today, the Robotics team settled on a robot design that is inventive and may also be realistic in terms of construction and functionality. I worked with a small set of the students (Dillon and Ayutunde) on programming a simple LEGO robot with an NXT programmable brick, making it perform race laps. I demonstrated the difference between 3-wheel designs vs. 4-wheel designs. I also worked with the sketch artist Danny to take the design to a slightly higher level of detail. We will be working on capturing and rendering that design in Autodesk 3ds Max to wow the ConEd design panel next week. Alejandro thought about an approach to RoboCoaching, while the ROTC gals Natoya and Nicoda captured the creative juices on tape, so to speak (there were no actual juices, and they used a digital camcorder).