Friday, May 9, 2008

Batman: luggage carrier


Name of model:
Luggage Carrier
Time frame of construction:
Five-six weeks

Team involved:
Danan and I

Contributors:
Red Baron, Shorty and Ranaldo

Initial Idea:
At the start I was building a tractor until Ms. O’Connell told us we were doing a plane project, so I changed it to a luggage carrier. I learned about carriers and they transport luggage to the plane. For safety people must their names and addresses on them. I built one trailer on it and it runs by one motor.

Adaptations:
The adaptations will be to maybe add more to it. We are adding a touch sensor. This works by putting your model in front of a wall or book and when the model hits it the sensor tells the car to go back or forward. Sarah and I might add some lights to it as well.

Changes in the future:
Danan and I are thinking of adding a second trailer. I will put some coloured bricks in the second trailer to make it look like luggage. I was thinking of having a mini number plate on the front.

Programming:
Danan and I will make our carrier go forward for three seconds. Then use the touch sensor to make it go back for three seconds, and then it will stop and beep twice.

B612: Hydraulic lift


Name of my model:
Hydraulic lift.

Timeframe of construction:
2-3 months.

Team involved:
Matilda,Red Baron and I.

Contributors:
Smiley and The Rose.

Initial ideas:
Well at first we wanted something to lift the planes up. Then Miss O Connell showed us the Hydraulic lifts on the computer and we raised our hands and teacher gave us the job. We had to make it by following steps on the computer. I thought making it was brilliant but at the same time it was hard. I still enjoyed making it.

Adaptations:
Well at first it kept on breaking so we had to take it apart and we had to make everything stronger. It was really hard. We had to get extra LEGO pieces and then we had to stick them together with flat pieces. It was still fun.

Changes in the future:
I don’t think we will make any changes but we might have to make it even sturdier. It won’t be easy in the future or even now to try and make it sturdier. But all of us will try our best and will hopefully succeed.

Programming:
All we need to make it do is, go up and down.

Ronaldo: The Spitfire


Name of model:
The Spitfire.
Timeframe of construction:
6 days.

Jimsey, Sparky, lynx and Shorty.

Initial idea:
We got our idea for the plane from the plane project that we are doing in school.
We looked at pictures of planes that John Thompson sent us. Patrick and I built 4 planes.

Adaptations:
We changed the wings and the whole plane, because our last one was too big and the wings kept falling.

Changes in the future:
We are planning to make it a bit better than it is right now. By fixing the body of it and making it more stable.

Programming:
We programmed it to go forward, back, forward, back and stop.

Roboshow: Hydraulic Lift


Timeframe of construction:
We are not finished it yet but so far it took us 6 months.

Name: Matilda
Name of my model:
My model is a lift.

Team involved:
B612 and I are building it.

Contributors:
Ronaldo, Smiley and The Rose also helped.

Initial idea:
Well our idea was to build a lift so that we could put it under a platform and then the planes would go onto the platform and it would look like they were flying.

Adaptations:
We had to build another lift so now we have two lifts. We also had to make them stronger so we added some more bricks and made it stronger. We are not finished making the second one stronger yet but we will get to it. We also have to build another plane but this time it has to be really light because all the others are too heavy. They all have motors and a lot of bricks on them.

Changes in the future:
In the future I will have to build a new plane to go on the platform. This plane will have to be light with no motor. I will also have to make the other lift stronger.

Programming:
I haven’t yet programmed the lift but I hope to make it go non-stop up and down.