For the workshop,15 schools from
Galle and Matara districts were invited and from them 10 were participated. The
chief guest was Dr. Nirod N. Samarawickrama who is the senior training director
of IJSE Galle.
The main objective of the project
was to enhance the theoretical and most importantly the practical knowledge of
the students on a field that would be highly valuable in the future and
motivate the students to make their future career in such a field. And also it
would be helpful to the students who are intended to participate for the
robotics competition which would be held in December.
The workshop was conducted by some
talented and experienced undergraduates from the Department of electronics and
telecommunication of university of Moratuwa. It was a great opportunity for the
students to get shared the ideas and experience with them.
The workshop was completely conducted
by some talented and experienced undergraduates from the department of
electronics and telecommunication of university of Moratuwa. First we gave a
small introduction with some relevant videos about robotics in the world, to
make an interest in their minds on the particular field. Students came to aware
of the fact that, robotics is consists of 3 categories.
·
Electronics part
·
Programming part
·
Mechanical part
In the programming section students
were taught how to program the “arduino” board which would act as the brain of
the robot. The most important thing is, any kind of programming knowledge was
not required to learn, because the
lessons have been done from the basics of programming.
In the mechanical part, students got to
know about the basics of the structure of a robot. We introduce them various
types of materials that can be used to make the chassis, wheels, how to mount
the circuits motors and all the other parts to the chassis. And by mounting
them, how to keep the gravitational center in the best position in order to keep
the robot stably.
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