Steam Not A Robot

[Johanne]

Andrewmade this battery powered robot to demonstrate motion made from household supplies for the Boy Scout Engineering Merit Badge. I love scouting! Merit badges are like mini high school courses with a seasonal reward ceremony. Here is his $1.00 robot he made with the motor from a battery operated toothbrush from the Dollar Store. The rest of this post is Andrew written. Here is how to make a robot!

Note from Mom** An adult should always help with a hot glue gun. I keep a cold glass of water near by. If hot glue gets on fingers or if you accidently touch the tip of the glue gun, you can immediately immerse the area into cold water. It will harden the glue so that it can be removed with minimal abrasion. The initial reaction is to take a swipe at hot glue as soon as it touches skin- this smears the area and makes the burn larger. I repeat this safety lesson each time the hot glue gun gets plugged into the wall!

Buy a battery operated toothbrush at the Dollar Store. You might as well buy more than one because you can make all kinds of robots with them. My Crayola Scribble bot is only one type. You can make robots from many type of materials, however in this case, you will need a 3 inch pool noodle. You can also purchase pool noodles at the Dollar Store during spring and summer.

Robots with silly faces or dressed up are crazy. Find odds and ends of decorations to use for your robot around the house. You will need to use a hot glue gun to hold the decorations to the pool noodle. School glue and a cool glue gun did not work for us. When you have all this assembled, create a personality for your robot!

Pull off the bottom of the toothbrush. This is the area where you will either find a battery or you will insert a AA battery. Look up inside the toothbrush and you will see a spring. Behind the spring is a motor. Tap the toothbrush end on a hard surface until the battery unit and motor falls out.

Insert the taped motor into the hole in the center of the pool noodle. If if is too tight, use a knife to shave the hole bigger. You should probably make sure you have an adult with you. Push it down inside so that only the end of the on/off compartment shows.

The oscillator spins so quickly that it transfers energy to whatever it touches. You can feel the energy, either in your hand or teeth, and it is the same energy that oscillates the robot in a circle.

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Well, I need a laser cutter. You might not, if you have the required precision. Whenever you make gearworks, axles, belts, or any other mechanical methods of delivering power from one place to another, the specifications need to be very precise in order to limit vibration, wobbling, noise, etc. Trust me, you don't want your machines to wobble.

Well, it's simple. Engines effectively turn one type of power into another. A steam engine turns the pressure of steam into the turning of a turbine. That turbine either turns an axle, or a wheel, or something else. Either way, you have a turning motion.

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I once worked in a bicycle shop called Store of Wheels. The owner had this fascination with anything with wheels. Consequently, in addition to bicycles, the store sold model railroad equipment and steam engines. We carried both of the ones pictured above, and they are way cool. Too bad we couldn't have had the hamster wheel gadget shown in the video!

It is a steampunk bird made of metal. It looks like a robotic bird with bronze or copper-like wings on both sides with a screw on top of its head. It has blue eyes, a bronze ring around both, and an oval-shaped beak.

Weeemake 12-in-1 WeeeBot Robotstorm STEAM Robot Kit is a multi-functional DIY ultimate STEAM robot kit. It has more than 450 parts and contains 12+ cool pre-set forms. Whether you are a mechanical or an electronics engineer, a software engineer, a teacher a student, or a maker, this kit allows you to easily learn robot-related mechanical structure, electronics, and programming knowledge, encourage teamwork for robot competition.

This kit is a powerful parts library consists of more than 450 parts. With heavy-duty mechanical parts such as beams, plates, brackets, gears, grippers, tracks, shafts, wheels, and easy-to-use electronic modules like ELF mainboard, RGB ultrasonic sensor, Line-following sensor, gyroscope sensor, limit switch, RGB LED-8 module, light sensor, sound sensor, buzzer, IR receiver, Bluetooth module, Bluetooth dongle, you can get an enhanced hands-on experience on 12 difference robot that is programmable in wireless way.

4.Ball Launcher Robot: Ball launcher robot is a robot that can moving and shoot table-tennis size ball. It consists of a tank chassis and a shooting mechanism. Extra 3D file for table-tennis container is provided for schools which equipped with 3D printer.

I think it seems like a fantastic candidate for development especially for educational contexts as you can (I believe) set it up to boot off the SD card and it could become like a Raspberry Pi. The Deck hardware could be owned by an institution, students could be provided with an SD card preimaged with what is needed, develop on the deck while docked, then unplug it and drive/monitor a robot. You could even imagine supplying 2x paired SD cards, one for a Pi in the robot and one for the Deck.

In case anyone is reading this and wants to run ROS2 on a steam deck and is having trouble accessing the joystick values, I have a solution. Instead of making a new post, it seemed better to put this in the thread that pops up when you look up how to do this.

Build, code, create, and explore using KIBO, the hands-on (and screen-free) robot kit for PreK through elementary aged kids. This little robot transforms from a STEM learning tool to an exciting and imaginative day of play.

In a sea of tablets, laptops, and devices, KIBO stands out by bringing a new level of creativity to programming. By navigating away from the computer, kids physically engage with KIBO through unique activities, lesson plans, and their own imagination.

After developing their creative PROblem solving skills in STEAM Academy's afterschool robotics program, the team members of LITUANICA X became robotics world champions. We're proud to play a part in our former students' efforts to conquer the world.

The STEAM Academy is a world class act. Their positivity, passion, enthusiasm, experience and skills are seriously infectious. They have built up tried and tested banks of exciting STEAM activities that incorporate highly imaginative and engaging story-telling which so effectively capture the hands, hearts and minds of the young. Why wait to turbo charge the next generation? They are masters of their craft.

As soon as Gus started attending the robotics club, he loved it! And I really like both the concept of the group itself because he's learned to focus better and pay attention to details. This program perfectly develops not only motor skills, but also sensory skills. His mentor's methods and communication with the children is excellent.

I would highly recommend STEAM Academy for their professionalism, enthusiasm and attention to detail of the facilitators. The lessons were really well planned and perfectly pitched at the levels of the students they worked with. The children loved the interactive, hands-on nature of the workshops and the teachers were really impressed with them too. We will definitely have them back to work with our pupils again in the future.

Our daughter is very inclined to art - drawing, painting, she constantly surprises the housemates with her creative solutions. She wasn't excited about being signed up for robotics, but now she looks forward to it every time! It's a fun, enticing, engaging activity that educates and fascinates.

My son is attending your robotics club for the second year. After each session, he returns full of joy and new ideas. He has a wonderful mentor, made new friends, has a blast, and learns new concepts and technologies. Thank you for being so amazing. Happy children make happy parents!

This is my son's favorite activity. Every time, he looks forward to the session and leaves it with a big smile and is full of positive emotions. This is the first year, but we are already seeing the benefits. He has become more creative, his logical perception, attention and concentration are all improving.

First of all I like going because it's really good fun and me and and my friends get to build things together. We've done lot's of cool stuff like make robots and I can't believe we get to do it with Lego. So you get to build actual robots- that do all sorts of things- but you have to think what you are doing...

Working with STEAM Academy's curriculum has been a breath of fresh air. With so many curated lessons and resources available my workshops are always fun and relevant and perfectly structured for the classroom environment. The children love the pace and story surrounding robots they build and get as involved as possible.

Why did this not exist when I was in school? This line was iterated and reiterated by me and the other teachers witnessing our first STEAM Academy robotics class. It is energizing to see this technological advancement being harnessed and used so effectively in a student-centric environment.I wish it had been around when I was a student!

We had the pleasure of being the first group to take part in STEAM Academy in Chicago and are absolutely delighted that we partnered with such an amazing company. The curriculum and lessons are so engaging and interesting for the children. They absolutely love taking part in the lessons each week and have learned so much. We couldn't recommend STEAM Academy highly enough.

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