Thanks to Sidd for telling us about Herb and his research developing robots for home environments. Many of the videos Sidd showed us are available online:
http://personalrobotics.ri.cmu.edu/
Here are the slides from Sidd's talk:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KP2VNJV
This will be used as a pre-survey for the Introductory Robotics Project for Middle School students.
Zee Poerio
Thanks to Golan Levin for giving us a tour of the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Here are some links to the interesting projects and videos he shared with us.
http://www.flong.com -- Golan's own art/research
http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org -- the STUDIO
http://www.golancourses.net -- Golan's classes
Golan also told us about two new open-source desktop fabrication tools: Makerbot and Lasersaur.
Thanks to Garth Zeglin, our guest speaker today. The best general link for videos is Garth's site: http://garthzeglin.com/projects.html
A couple of videos are on his vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/garthz
The specific New Artist video he showed is on Axel Straschnoy's vimeo page:
Here are the slides Garth used in today's presentation:
"Our world is what We make it"
Objective: Student will develop an understanding of human interaction with the environment. Students will explore both positive and negative impacts of human intervention.
Research - Student will research either a positive or negative effect for human involvement with the environment. Examples include: Conservation, Lead Certification, Recycling (Positive) or Deforestation, Ozone Destruction, Water Pollution.
Action - Students will develop a basic interactive model that will change, either positively or negatively, with human presence. Student will utilize a motion sensor to switch between two "modes" of their model; Before Humans and After Humans.
Tanner Huffman
Students will create a model of a biological system that demonstrates how that biological system works. More specifically, the model should demonstrate how the system reacts when performing a certain task. Student research will be necessary. The inspiration for this project came from the demonstration we saw yesterday in which sensors were attached to a man to create a graphical model how h is body reacts when hitting a golf ball. this activity could also be extended by having students label systems, subsystems, and components. While sensors would be very expensive for a school district, there are plenty of youtube videos that demonstrate things in slow motion. additionally, some might have access to high speed cameras and will be able to create their own slow motion videos. The difficulty I see with this project is that this will only work for systems you can see from the outside of the body.
Rob Ruddle