mission mech garden intro

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Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-yourself.com Laboratory Welcome to the

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Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-yourself.com Radical Mechanical Botanical Garden

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The Department of Important Inventions is looking for a few smart ladies and some hairy-chested men to save the world from vile villains who build dirty mean machines . . . and scurrilous scoundrels who make a mess.                      The Problem www.build-it-yourself.com

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www.build-it-yourself.com To save our good earth, we must build a computer controlled, radical mechanical botanical garden complete with outrageous plants, exotic bugs, creepy worms and cuckoo birds grown from recycled, premium quality junk. Our Mission Amorous Frogs

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www.build-it-yourself.com To save our good earth, we must turn trash into treasure. Our Mission The Cuckoo

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www.build-it-yourself.com To save our good earth, we must turn trash into treasure. Our Mission The exotic Evening Bloomer

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www.build-it-yourself.com To save our good earth, we must turn trash into treasure. Our Mission The rare Butterfly Bonita

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www.build-it-yourself.com To save our good earth, we must turn trash into treasure. Our Mission Dancing Flowers

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www.build-it-yourself.com To save our good earth, we must turn trash into treasure. Our Mission The feared Stingbot

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www.build-it-yourself.com Team Introductions Fav’s … Project Hero Hobby Quote Least favorite thing to do … 30 Seconds!!!

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www.build-it-yourself.com Law of the Lab

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Consequences If you don’t follow the rules, you must apologize to your teammates: Strike 1 – Warning. Strike 2 – Parent must sign a note. Strike 3 - May be kicked off the team. www.build-it-yourself.com

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www.build-it-yourself.com Extreme Building Multiple brains are better than one. Share ideas.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Let’s Make 4 Teams (2-3 members per team) Each team member will take turns keyboarding and building. The others will help by sharing ideas. The Duck Team

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Lab Book Seth and John

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www.build-it-yourself.com Set up your Lab Book Download your lab book template. Go to the Web site: www.build-it-yourself.com Click on Go next to ‘Projectware’ Click on ‘Presentations’ Double click on ‘Lab Book Template’ Save your lab book. If your lab book is not open, go to your desktop and double click on biy-lab-book-template.ppt to open it. Click on File / Save As. Create a new folder in My Documents titled your team’s names, jim-jane-john. Name your lab book, biy-lab-book-jim-jane-john.ppt. Click on Save.

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Describe the problem. Seth and John Describe your mission.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters Layout a collection of premium quality junk: Unusual playful shapes Colorful Light

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters Pick an unusual shape and see if you can transform it into a flower by adding colorful beads, pipe cleaners and other craft materials.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters Try to make your sculpture look good from all directions. When building models, we have the advantage of 3 dimensions. Your design may say more if you use all three dimensions.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The rare and delicate Orcabot Red Foamie sheet, colorful beads, sink drain, golf T, large bottle cap, electric wiring cap, pipe cleaner.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The rare and delicate Orcabot Cut our 6”x1/2” red strips and hot glue the ends in a loop. Glue them to the drain. Wrap the pipe cleaner around a pencil and glue the stems and golf T to the bottle cap.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The rare and delicate Orcabot Hot glue the beads to the petals. Hot glue the drain to the end of the golf T.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The always hungry Frolicking Frog You’ll need pipe cleaners, bottle caps, red paper clip, beads, white cardboard or Foamies for eyes, and a sheet a green Foamies for the feet.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The always hungry Frolicking Frog Hot glue 2 bottle caps together so they look like an open mouth. Glue the big feet on the pipe cleaner legs and the small feet on the bottle caps. Make BIG expressive eyes!

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The Belligerent Bionic Bug The plastic bag is good for bug wings although you can’t see them in the picture. Hook up wire makes great legs and antennae.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Garden Flowers and Critters The rare Temptation Rosebot Red felt, pipe cleaners, jacks, beads, green pencil, marker cap and bottle cap.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Frog vs Bug Game Sensors Sensor to detect bug flying Mount a light sensor on a platform. Put a black circle above the light sensor that the bug can knock off when it flies by. Decorate the black circle with a flower.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Frog vs Bug Game Sensors Sensor to detect frog hits flower and bug. Mount a light sensor on a platform. Put a black circle above the light sensor with a flower on top that the frog can knock off when it jumps at the bug.

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www.build-it-yourself.com Frog Test Program

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www.build-it-yourself.com Frog vs. Bug Program

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www.build-it-yourself.com Frog vs. Bug Flow Chart Logic Start Wait until GO button Run bug catcher motor for 6 seconds Is bug flying? Did frog hit flower? Run bug song Run frog song Yes Yes Run bug song No No

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www.build-it-yourself.com Frog vs. Bug Program Send 10 – Bug wins sound effect Send 20 – Frog wins sound effect