After researching several ideas the team decided to apply some existing technology in an exciting new way. The project goal is to make an interaction between an animal and humans better for the animal, human, or both. The South Idaho competition is in a week! They are experimenting with using advanced sub-routines to do more with the programming. The team is trying to minimize attachments and keeps adding things to the robot. Fun stuff! The robot just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The missions are all related to how people and animals interact and the touch penalties are poop disks. Lots of opportunities for the new kids to learn new skills. This year many of the last team's members got involved with other sports so it is essentially a brand new team. State Championship robot run 3 Girlz Got Skillz - Hydro Dynamics A new technology will be used that makes a smell from a reservoir of scent chemicals - like how inkjet printers can make a variety of colors from four basic colors. The idea is to have a helmet that plays the video and the maker of the video will signify what smell to release at what point of the video. The team finally came up with a very novel idea - add scent technology to 360-degree video to help space explorers reduce the effects of isolation during long-duration space travel. It turns out this year's was more difficult because no one has been on a long-duration space mission outside of earth's orbit. We thought the previous year's challenge was difficult because it had already been studied for so long. It was fun to just sit back and watch them work. They put many extra hours into designing, building, programming, and re-designing, and had many great ideas they put into the robot. What was amazing about this team is their drive and grit. Different tires and size and attachments. This year the team picked up some new Girlz and improved the robot but kept the same basic design. State Championship robot run The Return of Girlz Got Skillz - Into Orbit They even built a prototype using a LEGO RFID reader. The Girlz did a lot of research into how RFID works, how long it takes a car to stop, and how fast a car can be going and still read an RFID tag. When it senses the tag it lets the driver know. The RFID reader is in the car (an add-on device for now, built in as it gets adopted by the industry) and it sends out a signal to the RFID tag that is buried in the road.
The idea is that sometimes stop signs are missing or obscured or the driver is distracted. The project this year's team came up with involved using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to let a car know when it is approaching a stop sign. Along the way some of the Girlz took a CPR lesson, worked on building an electric motor, and helped some Boy Scouts with an Eagle project.
Many of the Girlz showed up during the week as well as weekends and put hundreds of hours into designing, experimenting, coding, and improving on the robot and attachments. The robot took on a different shape to better match the challenges and the Girlz design a quick change feature for attachments that really shortened the time to swap attachments. Some Girlz moved on and some more Girlz joined the team. The 2013 team: Quake Snakes What is Boise FIRST Lego League? You can learn more about FLL here and here. Some teams invent solutions that help specific people. The FLL teams meet with experts in the area of the challenge and spread the information learned to groups that can benefit. Coopertition is about cooperating with others while competing with them. Gracious Professionalism is about everyone improves each other while competing. Two important concepts of FLL are "Gracious Professionalism" and "Coopertition". There is also a project portion that involves researching problems and existing solutions to the challenge theme and coming up with an innovative solution that improves an existing solution or is a unique, new solution. During that time the challenge is released and the kids need to come up with a robot design using a Lego NTX (or EV3) "Brick" as a brain and various lego parts to solve the game missions. The team goes through a fast-paced season from late August through regional competitions in December. FIRST Robotic Competition (FRC) teams compete at the high school level.įLL stands for " FIRST Lego League." It is a partnership between FIRST and Lego and is open to kids age 9 to 14. FIRST stands for " For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." It was founded by Dean Kamen (inventor of the Segway) in 1989 with the mission of inspiring young people to be science and technology leaders.
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