My holiday in New Plymouth

For the holidays I went to New Plymouth and here are some photos

Robo cam 2.0

For integration we had to come up with a product that is not currently available on market so we came up with based on the idea of swivel (above) to make available for to put wheels on on it and make it go up in the air on Pistons.

My highlight of the term

My highlight of the term was the VEX research here is part of it:

Dear Mr Kennedy and Miss Holder,

Kids and Teachers at CSNS have discovered an awesome building toy called Vex. This letter is to persuade you to give us $400 so we can buy the Vex super kit and the Competition   Add on kit so we can set up a Robotics club.

What is VEX?

VEX is a building toy, like Lego, but with a twist. It’s a robotics kit! Pretty similar to Lego Mindstorms EV3 you build creations with motors and a computer so they become working robots.

Why do we want VEX for School?

VEX will help us understand complicated mechanisms and help us design future creations, similar to this Gumball machine which Ben (A member of our group) Designed and built. This skill is very handy because at CSNS we don't get taught that often, and this will help us later on in life if we want to be engineers. You would need to problem solve to manage to build a working robot It will also help people if they want to be computer programmers, because you program the robot brain.   

Is Vex Good Quality?

If you are wondering "Should I give us the money or not because Vex might be poor quality?" Then we have the answer for you.

We have researched the two most popular Robotics kits “VEX” and “EV3”. If you search "Vex Vs EV3" you get awesome comparisons, and they turn out pretty much the same quality, however VEX is a lot cheaper.

What We Will Do With VEX  With VEX we will build some awesome mechanisms, and in the end we will enter a VEX competition where robots battle in tasks such as this VEX challenge video.  We might even build a Rubik's Cube Solver!!!

Survey:

We did a survey and asked 31 kids, a mix of boys and girls mostly year 6 but a few year 5s, and 99.58% of Boys said they would  learn with Vex, and 90% girls said they would learn with it.  

What we want:

We only want 2 packs, the The Vex Super Kit and the Vex Competition Add-on Kit. Altogether it's only $400, so we are hoping you can give us the money!

Here is a presentation for evidence showing some complicated mechanisms we have made before.

If you need more info please contact us in GRi11. We look forward to hearing from you with your response.

Yours sincerely

Sam

Ben

Matty

Thomas

Josh