For my site visit I went to the Connecticut Discovery Museum with my dad. I went there because I thought it would teach me new programs that are used for robots. But instead it taught me better, it taught me software inside of robots and taught me where robots get there power. It also taught me, what wires that are inside robots and are used for robots. This helped me with my research by telling me what wires engineers use for simple robots for example if an engineer was willing to build a simple robot it would be using wires but a complicated robot would use code this trip taught me how an engineer builds simple robots. This trip also gave me information on how to build a robot. We also saw simple machines used for robots which really surprised me because I did not know that such a simple tool can make such a complicated machine. After my dad and I went to this room where we pull on a rope that triggers a robot to change color.

Then, my dad and I did some activities where they give you a task and you have to connect the wires to make the robot change color, talk to you, make a number etc. My favorite activity was connecting the wires and seeing what they did at the end. This was my favorite activity because it helped me realize what each wires were used for different occasions in robotics. Also while I was connecting the wires I realized where each robot got there power from. I realized this because while I was connecting the wires the power had to have come from some where, then I looked up and saw the wires was getting it’s power from this plus minus machine. Then when I asked my dad what it was he told me it was power used to make the wires work.

My dad and I didn’t only look at the robotics part of the museum we also looked at other parts such as this really cool bottle that had some sort of chemical inside that was attracted to a magnet so if you put the magnet up to the bottle the chemicals will come right to it and it was one of my favorite parts. Overall this site visit was really helpful towards my Capstone project because when I look back at the site visit, it helps me with my research.

This picture below is a picture of me looking inside of a robot and what wires are used for it.