We have been working on a wiki. This wiki consists of information on computers, parts, how they work, and what do the futur versions do and what they do?
In my group, we are doing CPU's/Processors
Sarah is How does it work.
Im doing future CPU's
RObyn's doing different types of CPu's
and Alex is doing what is a CPu.
Our group was workign well, until robyn left our schoool so we had to split her work among the group.
We have worked well as a group. However i left the group for a few lessons to do a bit of robot work. This left the group to do their own work. However i beleive that my work was done and all it needed was a bit of touching up.
Also after finishing off the wiki, i was able to find a nice background for my blog. What i found interesting was the fading in and out fo the background, and the design was quite appealing.
It took a while to understand where to paste the code in and how to edit my about me, but reading the codes, it was easy to understand by having previous experiences with myspace. I understood how to change the size of the font and how to change the colour.
This has been my experiences with the blog and the wiki.
PEace out!!
ALYssa :)
In IST classes a group of friends have been experimenting with a robot lego. We have been constructing and making it work. This included reading the instructions, making a car, and programming it to do what you want it to do.
SO far we have been able to make it go, attach buttons on the end so that when it hits something the will reverse. The fault with this was that the car had to hit the object straight on or else the car would fall apart as the button isn't that strongly attached.
When programming the car, the system allowed us to turn the wheels at a certain power. If we make one wheel stronger than the other, it would cause it to turn. Programming was quite fun and we learnt how to make the car do different things.
Also the next lesson after that we were able to attahc a censor, however i was not with the group when they did this work as i was working with the wiki.
The next lesson i noticed that they got the car to follow the line, however as it was explained to me, the car was going in a zig zag direction as it was on the edge of the black line, by bouncing from white to black and back. They werre able to exytend the line further and still mkae the car follow it.
This was the progess of our robot car.
:) alyssa..