Computer Interfacing and
Automation
Once again,
this year's group of "pre-engineers" came up with unique projects that
met the design specifications. Brian Callow,
for
example, had built an Automatic CD Burner
which would burn a specified number of CD's automatically without any
user-interaction.
Andrew Knee designed a computerized robotic chess machine
which automatically moved chess pieces around the board. Javier Sanchez created The
Cubeful Automatic Storage System,
which files and stores items in a smart storage bin system,
while Colin Murray created an Automated Checkers robot that would move
checker pieces and play chess with the operator.
Matt Williamson, built a Room Organizer-- designed to automatically
clean his room for him!
Ryan Fillman took "best of show" this
year with his Marker Board+
robot, which wrote and drew with dry erase markers, and would even
erase the work afterwards.
If you were
to ask any of this elective class's participants, they'd very readily
tell
you how challenging the course is, but quickly add words like "fun" and
"rewarding" to the description.
You can help
support this wonderful experience: We're always looking for old,
"dead" dot-matrix printers, discarded disk drives, CPU's and
CamCorders--
they're a valuable source of motors, gears, belts, pulleys, tracks,
etc.
If you have some old equipment that you don't need any more and would
be
interested in donating it for use in the course, kindly contact Jack
Bozzuffi at 856-264-5644.
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J. Bozzuffi