04: LEGO/Logo Project & Presentations

LEGO/LOGO Project

The Challenge:

To build a chair lift, cable care or gondola capable of pulling itself along a string. Use a second RXC brick as a remote Control for Navigating the suspended vehicle.

DAY 1: THE APPROACH

We discussed the process and collaborated on the assignment. We then attempted to assign roles and task based on current skills. Christine was assigned to programming the brick because she had prior experience with lego logos in the class room . Joe was assigned to designing the Cable Car and I was responsible for the building the Paratrooper. I was unfamiliar with lego logos, but my team provided background information on the toy. I soon realized that building with lego’s was not the best use of my time, so I volunteered for documenting the process

DAY 2: DESIGN AND BUILD

Joe and Christine had identified more than one design ideal for the cable car design. The first cable car design did not seem to be balanced enough to glide along the rope. We then attempted the second ideal, which I believe would have worked if we would not have encountered other problems. We changed the Cable string from an elastic texture to a woven texture to provide adequate support of the cable car’s weight. Now we were Ready to TEST!!!!

DAY 3: PROBLEMS

We encountered the following problems:

Christine had issues with the micro world software and was not able to get the program to work correctly.
The brick did not responded to the commands so we exchanged it with another group. We relied on the other cadre members to answer questions and provide direction.

DAY 4: CONCLUSION

The Process of sharing ideals, collaboration, and building on each others strengths and weakness played an important role in this assignment. I learned a lot from my colleagues.

Report by Darlene Thomas