Today I have decided to do something new. I plan on having a breakfast Inventors Club with students. I will be starting little technology based projects in the morning in the cafeteria. My plan is to start small. I will start building a project and hope that students will be interested in what I’m doing. We have a bunch of Lego Mindstorm kits at one of your office buildings. We also have PicoCrickets and a bunch of materials that could be recycled and used as projects. I am sure I could probably round up a few computers to run scratch or logo to do programing. Below is a brainstormed list of projects that either the students or I could do. Students could use both Legos and PicoCrickets, one or the other or none.
1) bike wheel windmill
2) a bike shirt with turn signals
3) a bubble machine
4) a pop can solar heater
5) a robot that follows a piece of tape
6) Archimedes screw as a solar battery
7) Make a robot that pops a balloon 10 ft away
8) A robot that draws a picture of a house
9) A noise maker that follows light
10) robotic arm that picks up an egg
11) a zip line crane
12) A random number generator
13) A mobile carbon dioxide detector
14) a robotic food grinder
15) a lego cider press
16) mobile rocket launcher
17) Take a picture from a kite that is off the ground
18) a robotic computer keyboard cleaner
19) a Lego Record Player
20) a lego tape cassette player
21) a lego operated rock tumbler
22) a submarine
23) a remote control operated mobile camera with light
24) a programable air freshener
25) a remote controlled black mark remover (from school floors)
My plan is to start this Breakfast Inventor’s Club on the morning of May 30th, 2012. I will report on how it goes.
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