Computer.lab and the Young Engineers join forces on Open Evening

On Wednesday 2nd July Loreto High School had its second 'Open Evening' this year and Computer.lab went down to work with the Young Engineers in the Technology Department.  The aim was to combine some mechanical engineering activities with computer programming through the medium of robotics.

The pupils used Lego Mindstorms kits to make some tracked robotic vehicles out which were later programmed to move in different ways using the NQC language. This mechanical engineering part of the work involved assembling Lego Technic parts including gears, motors and sensors by following a set of construction diagrams.

You can read more about how these robots were programmed on our Mind.lab blog.