Designing our Mars Rover

Mars Rover

My class and I started Robotics class in term 3, throughout that time we designed a Mars Rover on Tinker-cad. We also have made a presentation on what we had done on the Mars Rover and what materials we needed to make it work so here is some of my presentation. 

This slide is showing my Mars Rover and explaining how I have taken a video and what website I have used to make this design.

Here is one of my designs I have created on tinkercad, tinkercad is a designing site, you’re able to create anything you want, I am learning how to use tinkercad and create my very own mars rover, in this video it shows different angles, sides and shapes of my design I have created. There are different shapes and sizes and I have thought about the how the terrain and weather might be Mars and how the Mars rover will have to fend for itself I have also learnt how to use Screencastify properly. Screencastify records me showing different angles of my design.  

Lego Mars Rover

 After we had finished making our designs on Tinker Cad we moved on designing and building our own Mars rover out of Lego, we had to make sure it was able to turn and if it fell over it would be able to get back up itself, we had to make sure that the Sphero would fit and it could drive our Lego Mars Rover, after had built ours we soon decided it would be better to take one more wheel off and have 3 wheels instead of four because it had some trouble turning.

What do we know about Robots?

We know that Robots might be used in the future, robots are not the same as humans, most robots have a controller. For an example a drone, a drone has a camera to take pictures of a video. you have a controller to control where it goes and lands and what images and videos it takes. Robots do not have a mind of their own. 

My thoughts on the Mars Rover.
I think creating and building Mars Rover is a good idea because it might help human lifeforms in the future, we could collect data with the Rovers, we may even spot some lifeform on Mars and figure out how to start our own life on Mars, my Mars Rover needs some shaping up done on it, some of the things we really need to make sure is the weather, the shape of it to help it get out of places, to move around and turn, the environment around it. With Mars Rovers we are able to capture a different environment. I think it is cool that we learnt doing this and how to make a Mars rover. I think this is awesome to learnt to know a bit about the future and how technology works.

My Mars Rover video from slide one.