The extinct Penbo and a giant hamster wheel!
Samantha — Fri, 05/01/2009 - 16:50
This week, only Katie and I were able to attend the activities, I hope evreything is ok with all of the YWCA, we miss you! We visited two diffrent places this week. On monday we met this cool guy who does robot desings. He had lots of diffrent ideas. He showed us Rino, a program for creating designs ( whats with the animal names, Rino, Python, Panda?). He also shoed us a few of his ideas and a few all ready created robots. We got to see penbo again, she danced for us, but we did not know who to get her baby. We also saw the original penbo design, it was more penguine like, and aimed to boys more than girls, but it was awsom looking, I think they should also make it into a robot. We saw ideas for plantanimals, they are robotic plants, they sound like they would be an interesting thing to have around. We also learned a good insperation for design, the Beehive, and some coffee!
I loved the robot desings even the ones that did not become real!
On wensday, we went to this place that had big robots that were not so cute and cuddley, but functioning, working, robots that were not just toys. We wernt able to see all of the robots because some were secret government projects. Most of the robot were big and were veical like. Most were used for agricultural purposes, for mining, and other things. One of the back wheels on one of the robots was bigger than me, so I sat inside of it and it was cool! I liked most about wensday, it helped me form a diffrent outlook on robots, all of the robots I (we) saw so far were toys, I liked the toys a lot, but seeing non toy robots helped develop my rational look on robots.
well thats all for now, no ( 'o') on wensday, but there were some at the ETC on monday.
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