Friday, October 28, 2016

Google Drive

Here is the link of Google Drive.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bwisms0In6D3T1drakY0blgwR0U?usp=sharing

Robot solutions we can learn from.

Here are some solutions posted by other teams and we can learn from.

. This trip finished all food delivery and milk collection in one trip (100 points). Look how they design a stable gear to drop food and how they locate each animal post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azbj3CtNiAQ

. Look how fast they collect food from the refrigerator, and how they finish the research people, panda, and seal missions in one trip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shco3dQqgj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoyJ5iNtgJU

. Another solution of food delivery and Gecko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAn3W71XsmM

. See how they combine the shark tank mission and dog service together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQU8boNqpqo

Sunday, October 9, 2016

FLL Project Homework - Week of 10/9/2016 - 10/16/2016

Today the team presented the root causes of the CCD, and came up with the solution:

The Lymin Ducks will build a prototype habitat which is a sanctuary for bees. In this habitat, bee will not be exposed to the elements which will cause CCD. This will be a long-term experiment to  build a smallest yet functional bee habitat which, if successful, can be replicated.

Components of the Habitat and Assignment:
1. Fruit Trees - Chungtai
2. Pond with aquatic plants - William
3. Bee Hives - Williams
4. Wildflower to feed and attract Bees - Aiden
5. Bee Hotel - Sammy

Project Requirement:
Chungtai:
Come up with a list of fruit tree or flowering trees which will be best habitat for bees.
Research for breed name, where to buy, the price
Calculate how many months these trees can support the bees
Calculate how many trees needed to support a hive of 50,000 bees.

William:
Design the shape and size of a small pond which can support bees
Come up with a list of required aquatic plants for our planting zone. 
Present a design which will be a future bee hive and what material is needed to build it

Aiden:
Come up with the names of flowers for this bee habitat
List a few species of flowers for each of the season
Research what plants can feed the bees during Winter.

Sammy:
Come up with a design of the bee hotel
Consider how to improve upon the bee hotel to make it more bio-diverse.
Research the placement of the hotel to keep it safe from predators
Come up with a material list needed to build it
Come up with the design and instructions for the hotel

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Project Homework:

Lymin Ducks:

We have 4 weeks to come up with the solution for the problem we picked: Colony Collapse Disease.

Homework:
Borrow books from library; borrow DVDs, do online research for the CCD and list the solutions we can do to solve this problem.

Background:
The team voted to select this CCD as the existing issue we face today: 30% bees are dying and the food and fruit production is affected.

Please research how Bees help humans and how humans can help Bees to survive and flourish, solving the CCD mystery will be the key for it.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Robot homework 10/1 - 10/7

We have made some progresses in our last meeting.
. Sammy finished the refrigerator duplicate
. William redesigned the food basket and made it smaller. He also finished the hook to pull the release bar.
. Aiden started working on the Honeybee mission and pat mission.
. Chungtai finished the base, and the Shark Tank mission.

In the coming week, here is the Robot homework assignment:
. Sammy needs to think how to use motor to release food from the refrigerator and how to hook this mission block with the base.
. William needs to finish connecting mission blocks with the base, and start testing the task in our next meet. This means you need to start programming too.
. Aiden needs to find solutions to two tasks. 1) How to pull back the pet and bee once foods are collected from the refrigerator. 2) How to deliver the honeybee to bee hive and bring the honey back to base.
. Chungtai needs to work on several things. 1) Duplicate the frame of the base, so we can test how to connect mission blocks with the base. 2) Duplicate wheels and color sensors on the other brick, so we can do routing experiment on this brick. 3) Help Sammy and William to hook up their mission modules with the base and programming the robot to finish our planned missions.