Egr100
Fall 1999
Ileana Streinu
Doreen Weinberger

Topics

• Administrative.
• Tutorial on Unix, pine, editing in pico and html page creation for those who do not know this.
• Independent work on robotic creations, for those who do know Unix, pine and html.

Lab Report

• The Web page report should be named labx.html (where x is the name of the lab, e.g. 2, 3. etc.), should be in your class account in the public_html directory, be readable, and should contain:
  • At least one picture of each mechanism or robot you have built in the lab. If it is hard to see the design idea from one picture, take several.
  • A short description of how it was done and what technique was used (e.g. what kind of gear mechanism, reinforcement, sensors, etc.).
  • If the design was inspired by someone else's or if it was yours. Put links to web pages which provided inspiration for the design.
  • What works and what does not work.
  • Thoughts you might have about making it work (according to some specifications).
  The web report has to be started during the lab session on Thursday and should contain at least a general description of what you did by Friday night. You can however go back to it, add finishing touches, perhaps better pictures, etc. and complete it by the following Wednesday at 10pm.
  
  
• The email report should be very brief (shouldn't take more that 3 minutes to write!!) and contain feedback for us about the lab:
  • Was it too much? Just enough? You wanted more?
  • Was it too open-ended? Too structured? Specify in what ways you think we could have designed it better.
  • Questions you didn't have time to ask during the lab.
  • Topics you would like us to cover in class or next lab, that we might have gone too fast over today.
  The email report is due by Friday night.