It's Moving!!!

Today we got our robot actually working. Now it moves backwards and when the touch sensor is touched it will move forward and then it turns around four times and move forward a little bit more and then say hello and display ‘What’s your name’. We’re still working on it because there are still some other things that we want to add to it, but at least we get to play around with it a to get to know how to use the Mindstorms a bit more. Next term we want to add a program that will make it say words that we tell it to.

Piano lessons at Enrich

I started learning how to play the piano. I asked Nicola to teach me and she gave me this book to teach myself, with her overseeing the process. I thought that it would be quite hard but I went quite fast through them. I learnt that the note C is always to the left of pair of black keys. It said to think of your fingers as numbers. So C would be 1, D would be 2 right up to G. I was practicing and practicing and once I thought that I was quite good at the piece of music I went and got Nicola and she would say if it was good enough or if I needed to practice a little bit more. I can't wait until next week to have another go but I will still practice at home.

Robots are taking over!

Today I went to a workshop with Darryn about robotics. We made Lego Mindstorms. From now on I'm going to make sure that I clean them up once I'm done with them because Me and Darryn got the great job of packing them up because there were the remains of old robots, random pieces everywhere and pieces in the wrong boxes. I like making things tidy so I didn't really bother me. Once that was done we went onto the patterns workshops after lunch. Max J, Max N and I were in a group together because we have all used the mindstorms before, but we still had to make the REM bot and then we can add other attachments to it. All that we got done was the Rem bot so next time we will start programming it on the computer.