Camp 1: Building Robots (Pictures!)
When:
June 22 (Monday) - June 26 (Friday). 9am-noon Mon-Thu, and Friday will be
a field trip.
Where:
Thayer School of Engineering,
Dartmouth College
In this camp we will apply engineering principles while building a robot.
See our
poster for the Summer Robotics program this year.
Schedule
- Day 1. Assemble a robot: We will build a line-crawler robot
from pre-built parts.
- Day 2. Breadboarding: Build the circuit for the line-crawler
on a breadboard.
- Day 3. Printed Circuit Boards: Build the circuit by soldering
components onto a circuit board.
- Day 4. Fabrication: Assemble all components and make them run.
- Day 5. Field trip to the
American Precision Museum.
Reference Text
"Robot Building for Beginners,"
David Cook.
Special thanks to Kevin Baron, Manager and Instructor, The Thayer School of Engineering Machine Shop.
Sponsored by
The Office of the Provost, Thayer School of Engineering,
The Neukom Institute, Department of Computer Science,
of Dartmouth College