My genius hour project for the 3rd round was making a gopigo robot using raspberry pi. I originally was thinking of doing card tricks for my genius hour project but I wanted to do something more useful so I decided to do the raspberry pi project, which looked really cool. My steps to finishing this project were first, to research, then to get the materials, to start assembling the robot, and to drive the robot. I looked for help from Mrs. Sayre, since she was the one who introduced the topic to us. And also from my dad, since he is really good with tech stuff and helped me with the coding part of the project. My end project was a fully assembled and working robot. *I shared this end product by taking pictures of our steps and putting it into a slideshow. Some of the successes was having the fully assembled robot and ready to be driven. I also coded the robot correctly so that was good too. But some problems I faced was that sometimes, the parts of the robots wouldn't work correctly. Next time, I would like to have better time management, because we didn't have enough time to drive the robot. Next genius hour, using the assembled robot, I want to find different and cool ways on how to drive it.
Today during Genius Hour, my group and I continued to assemble our gopigo robot. We made a huge stride today when I brought the Micro SD card needed with the raspbian pi program on it. I am looking to send more time on this project so the assembly goes faster. After that, we will look at the technical side of things. Today, during genius hour, I brought some of the supplies we needed. We are now officially done researching and can finally get this thing going! Today, during genius hour, my group and I wrapped up our research by finding out how to program the robot. I also found all the supplies we really need to finish our project. These supplies include a WiFi dongle, an SD Card, and a Bluetooth adapter. The Bluetooth adapter will definitely be helpful as it connects the controller to the robot. Next week I will bring all these supplies and we can finally get this project going!
This is officially the first blog I'm posting. And honestly, I'm a bit nervous about showing this blog to the rest of the world. I mean, a random person could just wander onto this blog and see what I'm writing. What if my writing is bad, or I made a mistake. Those are things I'm afraid. Overall though, I'm actually kind of excited about this. I know that I'm only doing this because the school make us,but hey, it's not like it's a giant assignment. I'm going to e interested to see how well I do on my brand new blog.
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AuthorHi, I'm Dhruv, a sixth grade student at Goodrich Elementary. Little known fact, I like chicken nuggets and play a lot of sports. ArchivesCategories |