This Drawing Bot project was the first time using these new materials.

It was a little intimidating, but it wasn’t anything my partner and I couldn’t handle.

First, we put together the bot itself,

We put the markers onto the crate, the same way the parkers were put on the cup in the demo, we weren’t ready to explore beyond the basics too much.

After some trial and error, as well as going through the design thinking cycle a few times, we were able to get our bot going!

Once we got the technical side done of getting it to work, it was time to make some creative and aesthetic choices, although we didn’t get full control of this choice. We were given the prompt “mischievous”

using this prompt we had to make our bot move, look and or sound “mischievous” and we had to convince the class.

Right off the bat we decided to use reds and grays for our bot because it would give that feeling of mischief.

We used red burlap and red and black pipe cleaners as a way to further express our word

working with these materials, the markers, tape, pipe cleaners, ect. really brought me back to my younger art years, connecting me to my prior knowledge of arts an crafts.

The hardest part would have to be when we were deciding how to make our piece come off as mischievous. We used music and a drawing on the top of the bot to make it more convincing.

 

 

Overall, the project was a lot of fun, and definitely would be a great project to help children learn more about design thinking.