Dec 22, 2017 - Happy Friday... almost Winter Break

Entrance Ticket -  Where the software meets the road: Certifying the safety of self-driving cars

•  Developing wholly or partially self-driving vehicles that are safe for the mass market 
• What has the Aviation Industry done, that the Auto Industry needs to do?
• Are Autonomous cars more about Hardware or Software?

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:40 - 1:15 - What is the plan for Next Semester?
• RaspberryPI 
• Kerry Bruce
• Facebook - Mr. Bruce's HackerSpace
• Twitter - Kerry Bruce 
• My IT Instructor
• Python
• More Robots
• Lab Equipment
• PLC
• Pneumatics

• 1:15 - 1:45 - Lets Get Ready For Next Year
• Wipe down tables
• Make sure all desks have monitor and DVI2HDMI cable
• Get and clean a keyboard and 2nd mouse

• 1:45 - 3:20 - Open Lab
• I have a few Jobs / Projects I would Like to take a look at
• Remote Codes - capture the codes to a few Remotes
• Do the motors on the Crawler Bots work?
• look up the specs on a few of the parts I got from the Home Brew Robotics
• Other jobs that will help me...

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 20, 2017 - FlexFactor and Open Labs

Entrance Ticket - See Agenda... Flex Factor First 

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-1:30 - Flex Factor - Entrepreneurial Workshop

• 1:30 - 1:45 - Entrance Ticket - "Clear Path" 
  
• Guide Robot for the Blind
• Wow... this Paper is deep... "A simplifying diagrammatic representation of crisp and fuzzy teleo-reactive semantic circuitry for application in robotic agent task control" 

• 1:45- 3:20 - Open Lab with Flex Factor Slide Review of each team

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 19, 2017 - Christmas Lights? FlexFactor Slide Review

Entrance Ticket - Do something with Christmas Lights

• Pick a project or setup an electronic experiment using some Christmas lights. Document what you plan to do in your Engineering Note Book
• See the following, or find something on line:
• Reference on fixing Christmas lights
• Recycling Christmas Lights <-- do this with 3-5 lights and use 5Volts. Does this work?
• Blinking Christmas Lights
• What You Need to Know About Current, Voltage and Resistance

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-1:00 - Entry Ticket - 30 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 1:00 - 1:20 - Flex Factor text book

• 1:20 - 3:20 - Stuff....

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 18, 2017 - FlexFactor and Projects

Class Agenda:

• 12:30 - 1:30 - Flex Factor

• 1:30 - 1:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Entrance Ticket - What is happening in the Tech Industry...
  
• On Demand Webinars & Educational Courses 
• See DesignNews and Sign up for News and Updates

• 1:45 - 2:00 - Walk

• 2:00 - 2:45 - Open Lab

• 2:45 - 3:20 - Robots

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 14, 2017 - Lets get some stuff done on our Projects

Dec 14, 2017 - Lets get some stuff done on our Projects

Entrance Ticket - Humble Bundle MAKER books...

•  Take a look at this Humble Bundle Maker Skills Builder Bundle

Class Agenda:

Open Lab Time... but you need to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 12, 2017 - The Village Drill

Entrance Ticket - An internship at Northrop Grumman is unique

• High School Internships
• FAQ
• Professional Development  
• NorthropGrumman Scholarships 

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:40 - 12:50 - The Village Drill
• BYU Capstone Mechanical Engineering Project Video
  

• 12:50 - 1:20 - 3D Printing 
• Key Chain Lab

• 1:20 - 2:20 -Engineering Project

• 2:20 - 3:20 - Robots

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 11, 2017 - WoHoooo.. Robots

Entrance Ticket - Check out this Instructables... CritterBot... and also follow my Steam Clown Blog (Submit your email on the right side) 

• http://steamclown-mechatronics.blogspot.com/
• Check out other Instructables you would like to build next semester... Arduino or RaspberryPI...  Submit one to IC

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:45 - 1:00 - Now we are going to watch a robot movie...
• Cassies Take a Tour of Agility Robotics
• OSU - Cassie - Next Generation Robot

• 1:00 - 1:15 - Work on the first  to Job Ready Career Skills at www.jobreadycareerskills.com 
• Do the following 2 lessons 
• Maintaining Honesty
• Playing Fair

• 1:15 - 1:45 -Flex Factor Slides
• Get with your team, assign each member a specific side to work on
• Turn in to IC your PDF of the team slides, specifically telling me which slide you worked on today.

• 1:45- 2:45 - Engineering Project

• 2:45 - 3:20 - Open Lab - VEX Robots

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 8, 2017 - Hacker.IO

Entrance Ticket - Check out Hackster.IO

•  Learn to design, create, and program electronics.  Sign up to start getting the email newsletter and alerts.  We are going to be doing some of these Arduino and RaspberryPi projects in the future

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:45 - 1:00 - Get a job

• 1:00 - 1:20 - Work on the first  to Job Ready Career Skills at www.jobreadycareerskills.com 
• Do the following 2 lessons
• Demonstrating Good Work Ethic (R)
• Behaving Appropriately (R)

• 1:20 - 2:20 - Arduino Projects

• 2:20 - 3:20 - Robots

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 7, 2017 - Evil Mad Scientist

Entrance Ticket - Check out Evil Mad Scientist - https://www.evilmadscientist.com/

• Tell me what their Mission Statement is?  Does it make it clear what their goals are.
• What products do they build?
• How big is their company?  
• What Color is the 2 founders hair?

 Be ready to discuss

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:40 - 1:00 - I probably will talk till 1:00

• 1:00 - 1:30 -Welcome to Job Ready Career Skills
  
      www.jobreadycareerskills.com
      Login using username flast.svcte and password Fc342487
      Rest your password — and remember it!

• 1:30 - 2:15 - Open Engineering LAB time

• 2:15 - 3:20 - It's Thursday... So ROBOT Club

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 5, 2017 - Will Robots and AI Kill Us?

Entrance Ticket -  Artificial intelligence isn’t as clever as we think, but that doesn’t stop it being a threat

• Are AI outperforming Humans?  Is this by a significant amount?
• When related to Graphs and Charts, what does "it’s all up and to the right” mean?
• In 2016, how many AI startup companies where there?
• If a computer can do one-third of your job, what happens next?  What do you want to happen?

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:45 - 1:00 - FlexFactor - Who is doing what on your team.  List and submit all your team members roles.  Specifically what are you doing?  Google Doc or PDF

• 1:00 - 2:00 - Engineering Project - Arduino - Let me see your code if you are coding something...

• 2:00 - 2:15 - Lets all get a JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 2:15 -3:20 - Robots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Who wants to be on a VEX team?
• https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexedr/competition/vrc-current-game
• Game Video
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• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Dec 4, 2017

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-1:30 - Flex Factor - Mr Philip Tran
• BusinessBasics-EVC.pdf

• 1:30 - 1:45 - FlexFacor program review
• Grading
• FlexFactorOverviewPresentation

• 1:45 - 2:15 -  FlexFactor Slides
• SamplePresentation

• 2:15 - 3:00 - Arduino Projects

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Entrance Ticket - Get a bigger Box, find your Arduino, and put it back in the cabinet...

• Find your "small" project box
• Make sure you still have an Arduino
• Get your "bigger" box. 
• Put your small project box in your bigger box
• Put your project box in the big student cabinet on the 1st or 2nd shelf.

Class Agenda:

• 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 12:40 - 1:40 - Flex Factor - Mr Philip Tran
• BusinessBasics-EVC.pdf

• 1:40 - 2:15 - C++ Code Project

• 2:15 - 3:20 - Electronic Project / Open Lab Time

• 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup