Goal: Create a device to improve human capabilities—an arm that can reach high shelves, colored lights that echo your mood—or whatever improvement you can imagine.
Start date: May 1, 2019
Due date: May 31, 2019
Rules: You may use only the sensors and motors from the WeDo 2.0 kit, the original WeDo kit, or the LEGO BOOST kit. However, you are welcome to use multiple WeDo kits, BOOST kits, additional LEGO pieces, and non-LEGO materials.
Niko and Max have designed a device to detect walls or other obstacles for people with poor eyesight. If the detector gets close to a wall, a motor spins so that the sound and vibration will alert the user to the obstacle ahead. Thank you to Empow Studio Robotics Club for the inspiration (click to […]
Kai and Aiden have designed a wheelchair that is able to detect a wall and back away from it.
Ellie and Ella have built a device to let older people use a water slide safely by using colored lights to signal when the slide is clear so that the person knows that it is safe to start sliding.