Smart House
This is a picture of the outer walls of the house after they were added. Here is the house before any walls were attached.
We went to Tyler's house to cut the pieces of wood into
the correct sizes for the walls.
We went to Tyler's house to cut the pieces of wood into
the correct sizes for the walls.
Here we are using hot glue to secure the walls
in place. It held up, to our surprise, very well!
in place. It held up, to our surprise, very well!
Here is the house with all of the inner walls secured in place. This also shows all of our electrical components within our house, including a security camera, a lighting system, and a door alarm. Almost all of which could be controlled wireless through a computer or phone.
This is a close up image of our control module for our security systems, the Raspberry Pi.
A close up of the finished project
Project X-51
Rovers such as the Curiosity are what inspired Project X-51, as well as our rover design
As a separate optional part of X-51, we were allowed to design and build a landing pod for an egg-astronaut, based off of something like this
Our egg landing pod looked very similar to this
Robotic Arm
For our robotic arm challenge, we had to design and create a robotic arm that could pick up a cup and place it somewhere else. first we had to create a prototype out of recycled materials, no robotic parts. for ours we used elastic chains to rig a stick and string pulling system to make the arm move up and down, and we uses a friction fit claw to grab the cup