| Date: |
Thursday, Sep 25, 2008 |
| Time: |
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
| Place: |
Room 202 (Mr. Hoffman's Room) |
| Attended By: |
Lani Older, Wyatt Albert, Tim Fillebrown, Doug Kehrly, Bruce Kehrly, Mrs. Kehrly, Mr. Snyder |
| General Activities |
- Get-acquainted session to find out about career plans, hobbies, past experience.
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| Electrical Engineering Activities |
- Introduction to simple DC circuits
- Schematic symbols for battery, lamp, motor, switch, transistor
- Introduction to DC motor control, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
- Explanation of how Mindstorms RCX uses PWM to provide 8 power levels
- Introduction to oscilloscope, voltage scale, time scale, triggering
- Inspection of RCX output at various power levels using oscilloscope
- Discussion of plans to build motor control units using transistors to allow RCX to control larger motors
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| Mechanical Engineering Activities |
- Inspection of offroad robot chassis and motors
- Addition of rubber spacers to align and stabilize large LEGO plate mounted to offroad robot chassis
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