Week Three
If you are done planning, today is the day you start building. Building your mini-golf hole is a process: imagine, plan, make, evaluate, and improve your project. Today you start making!
Build a basic engineering mechanism that will be used later in their projects.
Cam and follower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEOQr91q4wA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQvk5aYlGg
Crank and Slider
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yl4nfJQ8S8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufhEQEIJb0
How to Make a Crank, Link and Slider
Pushrod
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/make-crumble-robot-head/0
Jump to section 4 on the left menu “The pushrod mechanism”
29 Automata projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJ1Yc2SwAs
Materials needed for class
- Cardboard Knives
- Hot Glue Guns
- Hot Glue
- Cardboard
Week Two
Today we are designing, planning and getting started. Building your mini-golf hole is a process: imagine, plan, make, evaluate, and improve your project. We’ll tackle the first two of these today, imagine and plan.
4:00 pm Student Entrance Survey
4:30 pm Divide into teams and brainstorm
Imagine your project
A good place to start is picking a theme and doing some rough sketches.
Check the internet for inspiration
5 pm Plan your project
Start by laying out and sketching the design. Use the layout page to draw your overall shape and features. Make a list of materials. Divide up jobs.
Here is a great breakdown of the planning stage
5:30 pm Grab some cardboard and build a mini-mockup of your plan.
Materials needed for class
- Chromebook or Laptop