Movement Challenge

Make It Move!

Inspiration video here

Instructions: Your challenge, should you choose to accept it is to create something that moves.

And here are some of our results:

Several students wanted to make battling robots and they started with the Cubelets. This led to working though how to code as well as determining what each block does.

Some of those students decided to explore another idea: armor to cover the Spheros for battle. This was an extension of a challenge we tried last year in the STEAM Lab.

Another group used littleBits to create a basketball hoop that would count the number of baskets made and buzz to signal a basket made. They worked through several obstacles: the ball wasn’t heavy enough, the ball didn’t hit the pressure sensor correctly to turn on the buzzer (but did trip the counter), and deciding what to make backboard from.

 

Another group working with littleBits made a much simpler waving hand with the servo bit.

Several students tried origami: a hopping frog and movement of the wings of a paper crane.