Project Ideas 09/04/2012

Ideas of MEC101 Project (09/04/2012)

1. Sumo Robot
        Each group design their own standard size sumo robot, and to do a sumo game.  


                         

http://www.robotshop.com/ca/jcm-samri-sumo-robot-kit.html
http://www.balticrobotsumo.org/default.asp?itemID=240&itemTitle=Gallery

2.Dancing Robot
      Each group designs a robot which could use several bar linkages concepts to make the robot to do the specific movements, like dancing.

                                        
http://www.tintoyarcade.com/products/Dancing-Robot-Green-Plastic-Wind-Up.html 

3. Shooting Robot
       Basketball shooting robot, 9 baskets in a square each group have to shoot. 12 balls, to see how many they can hit!! 

                                  

4.Paper Airplane Shooter

      It’s like basketball shooter, design a mechanism which could shoot the paper airplane out, and they can compete the distance they can fly.

                        

P.S. 

Desired Elements

       1. Arduino - Programming

       2. Physical structure of the machine design & manufacture

       3. Relative moving parts in the machine

       4. Simple

Physical Structure Kits:

The following pages are the main page which I mentioned today, "KOSMOS", and the products which I think we could use.:

Thames & Kosmos: http://www.thamesandkosmos.com/

The Physics Pro Box: http://www.thamesandkosmos.com/products/pp/pp.html