JFK Engineering Technology April-June Newsetter

Manufacturing of Pencil Holder and Napkin holder

Students used a variety of tools and machinery to craft their custom pencil holders and napkin holders.

Solid Modeling I

Students were able to design a variety of products using computer aided design software (CAD). Students were able to 3D print their custom name tags using our Dremel 3D45 printers.

7th Grade

Solid Modeling II

Students designed and digitally fabricated(3d printing) products. These products include a row of hooks and a dish.

Manufacturing of Pencil Holder

Students designed and manufactured pencil holders using a variety of hand tools and machinery.

Automation and Robotics 1A: Automating Mechanisms

Students were able to demonstrate how transportation systems are designed to move people and goods using a variety of vehicles. Students designed, built and programmed a robotic vehicle to transport construction materials from one place to another.

Students were also able to identify the subsystems that make up a transportation vehicle, including structural, propulsion, guidance, suspension, and control subsystems.

Students

Communication Aid

Students designed, programmed and tested a communication Aid using the Micro:bit.

Client:Massachusetts Department of Education

Target Consumers: All ages

Problem statement: You’ve been hired by MA DOE to design and program a communication aid using a tiny programmable computer board called a micro:bit micro:bit.

The micro:bit has a variety of inputs, like buttons and an electronic sensor called an accelerometer that can detect when the micro:bit shakes or tilts. It also has a buzzer and grid of LEDs that you can use as outputs to play sounds or display or shapes. By writing a program to make the outputs react to the inputs, you can design your own communication aid that lets someone show messages or emotions.

The procedure for this project will show you how to make a basic communication aid that shows a smiling face when you press one button, a frowning face when you press another button, and a message when you shake the micro:bit. However, you can program your communication aid to do whatever you want!

8th Grade

Automation and Robotics: Automating Mechanisms

Lesson 1 Final:Purposeful Design(final link)

Students did an outstanding job with their lesson 1 final projects; here are a few.

Rotating sign

Dragster

Automation and Robotics-Lesson 2: Sensors and Systems

2.1 Makes Sense

In this task, students created a program to spin the motor 90 degrees forwards and backward to simulate the opening and closing of the hospital door. Students will use the spin Motor forward for 90 degrees block and the spin Motor reverse for 90 degrees block to achieve this goal. This functionality is possible because the VEX Smart Motors have a built-in encoder that allows users to control the motor's direction, speed, acceleration, position, and torque.

2.3 Follow Me

In the previous two activities, students focused on programming to respond to input from an optical sensor. In this activity, students dive back into the mechanical world as they build a cam and follower that is driven by a motor. They will use what they learned in the previous activities to automate the system to move when the optical sensor senses that an object is detected.