Goal: Design and construct an amusement park ride for the WeDo New Year’s Fair! Implement everything you’ve learned about motors, sensors, and WeDo to make an extravagant ride that brings in the New Year in style. Your celebrate-o-matic must include sound.
Start date: November 23, 2013
Due date: December 18th, 2013.
Rules: The motor(s), sensors, and sound from the computer must all be included in this construction. Pull out all the stops! Again, please use only motors and sensors from the WeDo kit. Multiple kits are allowed. For tips on using sound with the WeDo program, check out this snippet: Programming Sound.
Celebrating the winter in Sharko's amusement park is quite a ride. With short lines and multiple monkey rides, you will hear lot of happy squeals and claps. … Celebrating the winter in Sharko’s amusement park is quite a ride. With short lines and multiple monkey rides, you will hear lot of happy squeals and claps. […]
WeDo Celebration Challenge – YouTube We hope you have as much fun watching our ride as we did making it.
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Hi! This project was created by 1st graders from Guadalajara, Mexico.The project it’s a Ferris wheel that works with a motor, a light/movement sensor and a tilt sensor from the WeDo building set. The motor is activated by the light/motion sensor and stops with the tilt sensor. Hope you like it. Enjoy it!
This atraction model looks like the Wedo Ferris Wheel, but adding some particular elements to make it more dangerous. We have removed two of the chairs and axles, and replaced the rest by cages. The minifig can so bounce repeatedly inside the cages…
Zipper – YouTube In this amusement park ride the people go on their seats and as the ride turns so do the people. This ride is very fast and a few people were launched from it. For 45 minutes the group did amazing work.
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) Another amusement park ride classic. The line is always long, because it is so much fun. After research on amusement park rides the group discussed what type to make by drawing diagrams/plans on paper.
Gondola – YouTube Another 45 minute creation from our wonderful girls who made the Ski Lift for the last challenge. This group took a real gondola park ride and made it out Legos. The group did research first to find examples of amusement park rides and chose a ride to recreate based on interest from […]
We created three different amusement park rides, and used the sensor and mail features to make our rides move.
