This is a tweenbot.
Long story short, the original Tweenbot was a 10-inch, cardboard, low-tech (and adorable) robot that could only move in one direction. It had a flag attached to it saying where the Tweenbot wanted to end up. It was set loose in NYC, and instead of ignoring it, damaging it, or suspecting the little thing of containing a bomb or something dangerous, the citizens of NYC actually helped the little robot get to its destination, pulling it out of ditches or turning it in the right direction. Against expectations, the Tweenbot ended up unharmed at its goal!
It's an experiment testing the humanity in people, even when they are as busy as New Yorkers, and the results were very inspiring and heartwarming :D
I love this kind of stuff.
Ryan took me to Radioshack, where I was basically 99% useless. So while I was practicing my ice skating lunges in the middle of the store, Ryan, with a call to Henry, figured out what to buy: a motor, battery pack, switch.
We're going to order wheels online and buy a potentiometer, and I'm going to try to make the cardboard body. It looks kind of complicated to me haha...I'm pathetic.
The goal is to finish it before summer ends and let it roam in either Atlantic Station or Centennial Park.
DO IT DO IT DO IT [:
ReplyDeleteand tell me how it goes