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Front view

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So here is my first project. Jessica say its okay, but there is few bad things (This black road)

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Here I tried make our space. I change little bit from original one (for example - Here there is no black road (?), and our house don't have roof)

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Here Jessie is testing her robot on area

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Here we make our place, where robots can move

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So actually this is robot how we put all pieces together

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We take-off battery

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Youtube : Finding movies about how to make
Program

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First movements

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Overall the claw bot that me and cobbi has deign were very successful in terms of the result, The machine were fully functional, and were able to perform action and reaches right between our expectation, which certainly is perfect. I suppose the amount of time that we've spend on making this robot was pretty fast, including the adjusting and the programming process. Even though I were really satisfy with what has came out, although I still thought we could have managed out time a little more appropriately so we would have more time developing and inquiring deeper.

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After the first attempt at laser cutting the house failed due to the inaccurate positioning of the piece of cardboard causing it to cut one of the walls in half, the cardboard was readjusted and the house came out a success.

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After I found out that SVG and PDF files do not work on laser cutters, I attempted to convert the files to DFX using Autocad. I came up with the idea of using "open file" to open my PDf file of the template then using the "export to" option to convert the PDF template into DFX. However this method did not work out. It turned out that Autocad could not open my PDF file. I tried to copy and paste the template onto the Autocad work space however that failed too. From this I found out that you can only create on Autocad not convert.

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I found out that svg and pdf files do not work on laser cutters. It only reads a certain file called dfx. This is the reason most designers prefer to use autocad or illustrator while designing a product. These two programs have options to save the file as a dfx file so no additional converting will be needed.

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The cutter cut through the middle.

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Vocabulary learned form creating the prototype 

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Vocabulary learned form creating the prototype 

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Desalination
Orbit tool
Face
Edge
Foci
Isometric view
offset
transparent
Texture
Hyperbola

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Process for building the desalination plant: 

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Process for building the desalination plant: 

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1. Creating the layout of the factory

2. Create the background including the sea

3. Use pipelines to connect water to the machine

4. Build the filtering machine

5. Color the whole model

6. Annotate the key features

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Sea Water + Water pipelines to the filter machine 

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Sea Water + Water pipelines to the filter machine 

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In 21st century, the world is developing in a very fast speed. The demand of the water in the world increases rapidly due to the population growth and also the increasing consumption of water for everyone around the world (R.Huffman 2004). In many areas of construction, huge amount of water is needed. According to BBC’s investigation, the demand of water will be increased 55 percent than the water demand in 2000 in the year of 2050. Water is vital for human being to live and survive. Human cannot live without water, everything in our life needs water. However, the total amount of water storage in the globe is decreasing in a very fast rate. Many water was wasted and gone forever, water shortage becomes a real urgent challenging problem is faced for human’s to solve. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a technology that can reuse, recycle and desalinate the water from the sea. This technology will be use in future water desalinate plant located near the sea which desalinate the sea and filter out the water to normal pure water for human daily uses and therefore solving the problem of water scarcity around the world. The sea water desalination plant is mainly aimed for well-developed countries near the coast because the desalination plant only desalinates sea water. The materials that used to build the desalination plant will also be recycle and sustainable.

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https://www.amtaorg.com/Water_Desalination_Processes.html

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/drinkseawater.html

https://www.veoliawatertechnologies.com/en/desalination

https://www.sdcwa.org/seawater-desalination

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I used illustrator to convert the file to dfx. This took me a while to figure out but in the end I found it under the list of "export to".

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Design journal: A1: The prepose I did this because now days there is only few cleaning water in the world, but people can’t live with out water. There was lot of water that been polluted and sea water.However we can’t drink them, why not we create a machine that clean  and  filter the dirty water or sea water.So that we don’t worried about the water resource. People in the world can drink the clean water.

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Design journal: A1: The prepose I did this because now days there is only few cleaning water in the world, but people can’t live with out water. There was lot of water that been polluted and sea water.However we can’t drink them, why not we create a machine that clean  and  filter the dirty water or sea water.So that we don’t worried about the water resource. People in the world can drink the clean water.

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I attempted to design the laser cut template of autocad but it was too time consuming. After 2 classes I have designed the house but I could not add dimension to it correctly so I decided that I could not use it.

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This design was too small. The size turned out too small because of the measurements I made. I measured the first figure and estimated the average size of the body from the bigger one. I decided that the body should be around 6 cm. However, this was definitely a mistake because this caused the end product to be so tiny that the rubber band won't fit thought the slots.

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-Me and cobbi has tried improving different parts of our robot. For instants we've attempt to increase the speed of the robot, by exchanging larger gears. Because then the bot would be benefit to the people by first transporting fast, and second  saves the farmers energy, plus in a faster tempo.
-I've came up with the idea of combine Vex IQ and VeX EDR.

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This figure design failed because the size was too big.

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Vex IQ water transportation introduction 

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Vex IQ water transportation introduction 

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Me and Cobbi is working on a prototype for transporting water with bots through mountains and roads, which brings benefit and to many farmer whom gets water from hundreds of miles away from here.
We have made a claw bot, which has the ability to grab and hold heavy objects, and a lifting mechanism for lifting up an object and place in the back of the claw bot, to store water, which safes a lot more space, and gives the claws more room to obtain more water.

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We're currently testing the mobility of our Vex IQ vehicle under obstacle runs. So it can adapt the environment while in the forest and transporting the water over mountains and alleys.

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Building a prototype for grace and rain, so they have an idea here they are gonna improve from that.

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Before the two groups merged, my group decided to create a solution based on finding new sources of water and/or energy. We first thought of combustible ice, although that is mainly just combustible, and doesn't really create water. We then thought of ice melting, but then, as one issue is solved, the ice berg melting issue worsens. This was all to be simulated using the Kittenbot.
However, the Kittenbot never actually worked, and we decided to employ water filtration techniques, so we changed our plan before we joined with the other group, using Vex IQ.
We researched water filtration and decided on water desalination, and two of my teammates started to go deeper and uses ketchup to design a desalinator machine and environment while I went to work on the Vex IQ that would later on serve as the main transportation robot for the water.

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Trick that acts as slide to bring bottle from one side to other.

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Trick that acts as slide to bring bottle from one side to other.

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Test to see if it can run on the cardboard without terraforming

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Test to see if it can run on the cardboard without terraforming

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Cool Trick that shows it can lift from cargo hold

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Cool Trick that shows it can lift from cargo hold

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see if it can hold, this was before the other 2 tests

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this one didn't work out as well since the claw didn't grab the bottle well enough to lift it into the cargo hold.

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Second test to see if we can put water on back, with slight control changes.

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Second Strength Test with more off balance and durable cardboard

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Second Strength Test with more off balance and durable cardboard

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Testing Movement: Including Speed, Claw Opening, Claw Raising, etc.

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Tried making the Clawbot Half-Tank, to help navigate more terrain. The EDR-IQ crossover didn't prove to be too matching, and wasn't that necessary in the end.

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Programs downloaded onto robot but didn't run

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There were many problems with the process, and we had to take the robot apart to fix or to make modifications many times, before deciding on making a Vex IQ Clawbot, which still had to be reconstructed many times. We did learn how to debug problems such as motor failure, so that was cool.

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We mostly just followed the rulebook, with tiny amounts of change where necessary

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Claw-Elevation-Wheels

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Example: Carried Water from Vex EDR (Amphibious Transport Carrier) to house.

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3 groups created 3 robots.

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Overall, the claw bot that the designer built was able to perform its function although we could have tweaked a bit of things to improve it. The time amount to do this was just about right, although it could have been better if we had found the materials we needed faster and started on the claw bot earlier. Some improvements the designer could have made was the programming part, the designer believes that the robot could have been able to work better if the motor speeds are lessened. This is because the area we used to demonstrate our project was a bit small to our huge robots. Even moving a little on the remote, the robot would move farther away than needed. If the designer had programmed it to be slower and to stop just as one has released the controls, the robot may have had been easier to control. Another improvement that could have been made was the arm of the claw which could have been improved by adding a few more locks and spacers to keep the gears and the motor in place. Lastly, if the robot could have been made again, the designer may have wanted to further develop the escalator idea that she have had before.

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With this project, and with almost all projects with Vex the designer has done before, there are of course, many trials and errors that the designers ran into with this robot. One of the first errors was the lack of materials for one. In this, the designer had not yet acquired the resources she needed such as a base plate, and screwdrivers. Without the screwdrivers and wrenches, the process with screwing and locking things in would be impossible. The designer had to look for the materials upstairs for about half of a class without finding the materials. In the end, she finally acquired the screwdrivers and wrenches. For two, the designer had tried to make the project with the escalator design she had in mind. When the designer tried this idea however, she decided that it may not work due to acquiring the water. Another bot would have to put the tank on the escalator if the designer used this. To help this problem, the designer decided that it was best to just use the claw bot.
Another trial and error involved with this robot was after the designer built the claw bot, she did not know how to program it with the software, as the software could only be downloaded on a Windows PC. In the end, she found a way to program the bot without the programming software. When the design EIN event came, somehow, the claw mover was not working, she realized and tried to fix it. However when she fixed it, she accidentally ran her hand through a control in the joystick injuring the hand which was still on the claw mover. This happened as the motors on this robot is extremely fast making the gears going through it fast as well. Due to this, the designer could not really control this joystick due to the injury of her hand. The resolve this problem, she had a team mate help her.

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The designer had once attempted to build the escalator idea. She had a difficult time building this at first with the lack of screwdrivers and a baseplate. However she soon realized that this idea may not work. She couldn't tell for certain if it would, so to be safe with the amount of time she still had, the designer started to build the claw bot. Building the claw bot was fairly easy as there was already a tutorial book of what parts are needed and how to build it. The amount of time needed in this was not much about 3-4 classes to finish building.

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The project aims to help people in poverty and water shortage. To help with this problem and hoping it can be of us in the future, the designers aim to have robots help villagers or people living in rural areas in the process of acquiring water. Why? The designers have researched that some villagers, specifically a family in Cote-dlvoire, which is located on the continent of Africa, they spend hours and hours and hours, about 21 hours a week just to get water. In that time of acquiring water and walking many kilometers, time is wasted. They could do many many things in that time. Other work can be done by that time, maybe farming to ear money, with this money, maybe their children could go to school or they could buy a better house, they could get better jobs. Time would not be so wasted with this project.

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The designer is already quite familiar with the VEX EDR model, as she has taken a course about robotics before. The designer plans some different ideas that could make this work. The first one would be something like an escalator in which the lego model can maybe put the 'tanks' of water on it. Another idea the designer had was to make a claw bot which could also perform the basic functions we needed in this without the programming part. The designer had also thought building a elevator of some sort may also work.

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Our project aims to have 3 robots together and also some kind of machine that desalinates water and a prototype of some sort of house and village in a rural area. Our goal in this project, is to have a machine that desalinates and processes the water to a pool where a lego robot will then box up the water into very large tanks of water. Afterwards, the Vex EDR model will move the tanks and give it to the Vex IQ model which will deliver it back to a village.

The designer's job within this project would be to build the Vex EDR to supply the Vex IQ with the water tanks.

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Final: Side view

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While I was researching for the template for the house, I found this template that is for a laser cut figure. It will be put together with rubber bands. I plan to use this as part of the area. It will present what the villagers could be doing if time to fetch water is saved. The figures will be positioned to seem like they are farming crops. The material that I plan to cut this design on is wooden boards around the thickness of 2mm

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I did some research so when I present our project to the audience I can interpret some facts surrounding the country into my presentation.

Link: https://www.britannica.com/place/Cote-dIvoire

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Robots:
EDR: Finish assembling, start programming
IQ:
Area/Research:

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Robots: Building
Area/Research:

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Credits: Grace

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Credits: Grace

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Due to all the attempts of trying to design the house myself have failed, I did some research and found a website that allows me to design my own laser cut box template for free. I then designed the way I want my house to look on the website and added the thickness to the material. I later downloaded the plan as a svg and pdf file.
Website house is being made on: http://www.makercase.com/
Process:

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3D design 'Vapor Converter' created by ajvalencia12 with Tinkercad.

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Robotics: Building
Area/Research:
Grace: Finish research
Jessica Kevin and Alex: Finish Area designing

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Robotics: Assembling robots
Research/Area:
Grace: Start on research and Criteria B
Jessica Kevin and Alex: Start exa

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Robotics: Assemble robots (or whatever you think you need to do)
Area/Research:
Grace: Finish overall and give to Jessica, Kevin and Alex by end of class
Jessica Kevin and Alex: Research and complete criteria A

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Jessica: Need of the product (Where When Why)
Grace: Analyze existing product
Kevin:
Alex:

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Grace: General outline
Jessica: (to fetching water part) Add details, measurements, etc
Kevin/Alex: Water take out the salt from the sea water
Add details, measurements, etc

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Area/Research: Kevin 褚卓燃, Gracjana , Alex, 薛景禧， Jessica洪凌芸
Robotic VEX: 龚胤衡, Jessie, 刘奕琛, Rain 沈霖

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There will be 3 robots in all. One robot will desalinate salty water, while the other two will get the water to the "Village" . One of the 2 robots. (VEX EDR) will work near a water source and be able to get the water to the VEX IQ machine. (VEX IQ) will follow the "Trail"(Black line") and bring the clean water back to the village. The Area of the project will be made up of recycled objects.