robopersonality

This task involved portraying our robots personality, how do you represent a series of islands that lay isolated at the bottom of the world and only moves about a centimeter a year. other than the usual cliche of representing new zealand as the maori culture which is a minority. we decided to show a more unified front of NZ expressing the playful nature. a child playing with a buzzy bee. we decided to have a lead machine with a tailing buzzy bee the lead machine was powered using servos to define the movement, whereas the buzzy bee was built to transfer its movement to the wings via cogs

Thomas and Seamus worked on the child and Zak and I had to develop a buzzy bee from a set of linear pieces of Lego which was nice change after working on designing a complex feature based unit using code to have it interact on the previous day, to creating a unit that had a nice form and the gears were in control of the motion, with a nice air of simplicity (except for the gears system only working linear).

other groups presentations included a mr T who was pussyfooted around people (they had difficulty discarding the protocol), a group who mistook a jester for someone who wears KanyeW glasses and dances the box-step. a archer which fired a arrow which was actual quite cool. a group who completely got blitzed by the concept of giving a dice a personality. the group that won had a frog which "jumped" with its front legs and had wheels at the back to make it turn, it elegantly crawled along the floor towards the fly like a child swiming on the ground whilst having a epileptic fit.

and so this concludes the long streak of working with zak seamus and thomas. its been fun,