On Thursday we did, what our lecturers called Situational Shuffle. In teams of four we were given small rectangular pieces of paper with instruction and assigned a role, controler (who read out the instructions), actuator (who followed the instructions), Tracker (who tracked our movments) and the sensor (who recorded our actions).
Then we had to write a reflective statement and put together the pictures and video into a presentation of our Situation Shuffle. I did some animation for ours --------->
I also did an animation of numbers rolling past the screen (counting pedestrians) and two cartoonish characters darting round the screen (follow the red lady).
As for my reflective statement - I wasn't that excited about this really, what made it fun was the people in my group and their jokes. I also found all the walking tiring. I believe this activity was to help us get used to teamwork, and to teach us that being in a team meant working to our strengths and giving our role in the group our own special touch. I also believe the presentation afterwards was to help us with visualising our ideas, an important part to our course and hopefully, future career. It showed us that we had to have more planing before we jumped into the action so we knew what we were doing and got what we wanted in the end.
Friday we all presented our presentations. We had a little problem with ours as we wanted to put our movie onto a pdf but needed a lectured to show us how, which meant we were doing it at the last possible moment and that we didn't have sound. Afterwards there was a BBQ and the year 3 pitches which I didn't stay for. But, I got my macbook before I went home.
Monday we started on the Lego Nxt, building robots.Monday morning we were told to split into groups of four an design a chess piece. My group designed The Atlas. A piece made to annoy both players, able to move three squares in any direction the Atlas is designed to block your opponent. It cannot take out any enemy pieces and starts in the middle of the board. It expands to cover all eight squares surrounding the one it stands on when moved, if the opponents piece is in one those square already it is unable to move while the Atlas resides beside it. When we had designed our chess pieces to the set condition we explained them and pinned the to the walls then had a look at the other groups. Some had some inventive ideas but had confusing explanations. I particularly like the Manic which flipped each turn and had a different set of moves.
We then had to make them out of Lego Nxt and program them to move to their protocol (The moves of each chess piece). Our way of translating our chess piece moves into robot program was to drove forward so far, then spin for ages.
We demonstrated this on Tuesday to the class. Then had races/robot fights. Afterwoods we had a new project. Create a robot in keeping with our chess pieces style and characteristics to come into the room from the foyer and knock on Pats office door/ask her for help.
This was very frustrating as we had ideas but not the expertise to program the robot to do what we wanted. Then when we could program something it didn't turn out how we wanted. In the end we kept our original idea of banging into the door repeatedly for knocking, but ended up using the colour sensor and having the robot turn when it sensed the colour yellow.
The robots were then put into action this morning, Thursday. Then we got a new project. To make an interactive drawing machine.
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