TIme Machine Robots
Your mission
Its been very rough getting out of bed in the morning, disrupting your dreams and putting you in a foul mood for the rest of the day. You are asked to come up with an alarm clock that wakes you up with a smile on your face!
Course description
By incorporating interesting engineering and computer science concepts, your alarm clock could wake you up by tickling you, telling you a joke, or maybe even squirting you with water! Using computer programming and electro-mechanical engineering, you can create an alarm clock that wakes you up the way you want to be woken up!
Time machine from a BIY student
Project plan
Research time machines
Describe your solution
Draw animated cartoons for your machine
Record jokes, quotes and music
Write a program to control your time machine
Build mechanical wake up mechanisms
Integrate Ardiuno
Attach light sensors
Present your wonderful creation to the world!
Skills You will learn
Researching method
Learn how to use animation to create animated cartoons
How to write a program to control your machine
How to integrate Ardiuno, how to attach light sensors
How to connect interface, use presentation skills