Here are the laser cut plans for the @birdbraintech Finch storage separator shelves.
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The plans have a link to the container as well.
Designed in @CuttleXYZ of course.
@ceciliahillway By the way, the projects are quite awesome! Simple mechanisms that speak with complexity and executed with prowess. Your love of making is clearly in your work. Thanks for sharing that.
@ceciliahillway I love it. This video is a great idea to share with students. I will start collecting my own fails to share with my students. Those personal stories and modeling tenacity in real time is super impactful on students. Thanks for the inspiration!
I am working on making a clock. This is still very much a work in progress but I am excited to share how it is going so far.
Designed with #cuttlexyz, of course.
@birdbraintech@CuttleXYZ Sure! You can use the design by going to this site:
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We used cardboard from the chromebook boxes that we got this summer.
I just got a set of 8 Finches from @birdbraintech for my classroom and my daughter made a home for them. She designed and laser cut the pieces using @CuttleXYZ. It is a super elegant use of space and should help the students care for the robots better.
@beechdesignz What fun! Is this part of an assignment to reproduce an item life size? What is the material that is bendy for the cheese and fries? Did you heat acrylic?
1st graders just showed off their alien planet exploration projects. They made helmets and science devices (simple circuit with a button and led). They designed the planet then I put their drawings into a generative ai. Their creative play was a joy to behold.
The Last Robot Standing Tournament concluded with AKA Finch beating The Reminator by a hair. It was an amazing match!
One of my favorite moments was when AKA Finch slipped under the giant wingspan of The Reminator. Both went on to score
Using @birdbraintech Finch robots
The Last Robot Standing Tournament is chock full of exciting moments.
Like any great sporting event we have heartbreaks and moments of triumph. I am super proud of these young robotics engineers for their sportsmanship and teamwork.
Using robust Finch robots from @birdbraintech
It is game time!
Our robotics class just started the Last Robot Standing tournament. The 3 min matches are intense with strategy and robot crashes.
Sarah (my coconspirator) and I are using the Finch Robots from @birdbraintech.
This is an explainer of the basic rules:
@cre8thethings Thanks, Keri. In this multistage process, the first stage was for the kids to straight up copy the finger design. They had to identify the process of making the finger by just looking at the example. Then they creatively combine the fingers to make the hand. Each hand was unique.
Decompose, Recompose, Remix. I gave my 3rd graders a finger mechanism. Their job: look at it and make 4 copies: Decompose, Recompose. Next step: Remix. They will design a hand.
The 3rd grade Mechanical Hands are done! They started by reverse engineering a finger (Decompose, Recompose) and making 4 fingers. Then they put the fingers together to make the hand (Remix). SS had plenty of time to make mistakes, try out wild ideas, and find success.
This is the example finger I gave students. I gave no instructions on how to build it. It was their job to look closely to identify how it was built. I use the words “Decompose” and “Recompose” with the students to describe this process.
Materials:
Cardboard
Tape
Straws
String
@morrill_rob@tinkercad@WoodlandPK8 I love projects where kids go "Ooooh! Now I understand why it doesn't work." Then jump back into working on the details.
This looks like one of those projects, Rob.
Fantastic!
Our @WoodlandPK8 5th graders continue to engineer wrenches for their lag screw removal project. One worked on the first try, but most require iteration / revision / rapid prototyping. Our mistakes are a path to deeper understanding! @tinkercad skills 4 the spatial reasoning win!