Summer 2009 Mentor Workshop
From STEMRobotics
This is a review of what we did on a week by week basis.
Week One - 9 June
We met and started with the reading materials Media:VEX for the Technically Challenged.pdf. We did the first chapter, the introduction. At the start of the second hour we used the Vex Quickstart Guide to build the tumbler bot. Most teams had two people on them, so the initial assembly went pretty fast.
Our mentors tonight were Charlie, Kelly, Sue, Scott, Jon, Matt, Shaik, Siri, Steve and Foster.
Week Two - 23 June
Due to vacations we were down to one builder for each robot. So we took most of the session to get them all up and running. The controller guide VEX 2008 Inventor's Guide Reference - Appendix D, Control Configurations (2.6M pdf, 06-27-08) has the correct documentation.
There were some minor problems, the robots were wired (and the control set up to do arcade). It took some time to break out the documentation and figure out the connection details to get them to do tank drive. But at this point we have 6 working Tumbler Bots.
- Arcade
- Motors go into 1,2,7,8 Jumper in pin 14
- Tank
- Motors go into 2,3,7,8 Jumper in pin 15
Next week we will race them to see who the better driver is, and to also change the wheels to show the difference in wheel sizes.
We added two new mentors, Gail and Ken.
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