Thursday, April 19, 2012 - Basic Computer Skills Assessment to include Office Suite Applications, creating files, folders and email.

Friday, May 4, 2012 - Robotics Vocabulary Quiz

 

Robotics Vocabulary Study Guide

 

1.      Brick The electronic component that controls the operation of the robot by following instructions contained in a stored program

 

2.      Sensor A device that detects some important physical quality or quantity about the surrounding environment, and conveys the information to the robot in electronic form

 

4.      Touch Sensor   A sensor that detects physical contact (touch) and reports back  whether its contact area is being pushed in or not

6.      Autonomous - capable of independent operation & (limited) decision-making, self-governing. (A robot run by remote control is not autonomous -- neither is one with lead wires & touch sensors held by an operator.

7.      Failure - is ok - because now you may know more than you did before - if you analyze  the failure well and can narrow down or better yet pinpoint causes of failure. “Negative information (knowing what does not work, as opposed to what does) is still information.It just doesn’t feel as good.”

8.      Debug –following through the behavior and interactions of hardware and software to achieve a repeatable, desired, correct, verifiable result

without wires - think TV remote. Requires a transmitter (TV remote, IR tower) to send(transmit) a signal and a receiver (TV, robot) to receive a signal