The process for this was a little bit quicker because we’ve done this sort of thing before. We also got some help on how to successfully make our bot move around. Our design thinking was pretty straight forward this time, we imagined what it would be, tried building it in a couple different ways, and after evaluating it a couple times we got a pattern we were happy with from our little bot. When the words were added in, we imagined what best signified something being risky, and came up with a theme and changed the motion of our engine a bit. The design thinking process I think was what this activity was all about because there were a lot of different things to be thinking about design wise.

 This was a fun activity, and I learned some new things from it. It was neat to see how to get different patterns from the drawing bot, playing around with how it was taped to the cup led to that. Also the use of other objects in conjunction with the engine (like attaching things to the engine) was new to me and very exciting. What was most challenging was trying to design this bot to communicate our word, risky, because we were a little subtle and our theme of western cowboys could be interpreted as other things. Overall though the challenge as a whole was really fun, I liked designing the theme, we had a lot of fun with it. It was also exciting to see the different patterns that were created with our bot.

I honestly didn’t think it would be so simple to make these drawing bots! Its also funny to these robots making art, but also the creative and artistic thinking that went into making these drawing bots. The two parallel each other in a sorta satirical way. I think any classroom from elementary to high school would have a really fun time with this project.  In the younger groups the only thing I would change is maybe including a model for them to get some ideas from, it may be a bit challenging for them to tackle on their own.