Design Brief: Nov. 12, 2010- Friday

Today, we began our design brief for the project we are currently working on. I think I did a pretty good job at it considering we only had about 30 minutes on it. So, as our teacher suggested, I will post my design brief from our project. I will post my design Specification in the next blog post.

Design Brief

While investigating human ingenuity and mechanical versus human environments, we use an NXT Lego Mindstorms robot. This robot needs to explore the surface of Mars. We will program it to complete an obstacle course which the robot will complete in less that __10__ minutes. 

We will program/teach the robot to complete the course using the following program blocks: We will use the light sensor block, the move block, and the stop block.

The course is more realistic and interesting by focusing certain design elements. We chose to include moving elements that you might find in Mars like a rover that cant communicate with Earth anymore so its moving around with the same system. That will be represented by Hexbugs moving around the course.

In order to make sure that all safety issues are addressed we include the following safety notices:We will stay outside the course while the robot is moving around it and stop it when it seems to have gotten out of the track. And we will also not move around while the robot is moving so we wont trip on it