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Model: Advanced Senior House
The model “Advanced Senior House” has a house with some advanced features addressing senior needs that the team gathered from the interview. These advanced features were modeled to make the senior’s life easier. Some examples are: Automatic front door for the house, Software (WeDo) controlled elevator, advanced wheelchair, Robot that can help senior in his/her daily life, and an advanced car with the motion sensor. The team is using Wedo software for most of the model components while targeting the needs for the seniors.
The “Advanced Senior House” comes with the following:
House: The two-storied house comes with kitchen, leaving room, bath room, upper floor bedroom, and others parts like fence. First we built walls with spaces for doors, windows etc. We added a second floor with pillars to hold it. Then we added a sliding door. Rotating the outside gear will rotate the pulley which in turn rotates another gear hidden inside the house. This eventually makes the door to slide.
Elevator: We used pulleys, LEGO bricks, string, gears, motor, and WeDo software to build our elevator components. Elevator moves with the help of motor, gears, pulleys and strings. The Motor, which is controlled by the WeDo software, drives the elevator to go up and down. This helps our Senior partner to go from one floor to another without using stairs.
Robot: We built a human-like robot with the help of a simple machines (crown and spur gears), cam, LEGO blocks, motor, connector pegs and axles. In this robot, the hands and head move. The crown gear acts as a driver and spins the spur gear in the opposite direction. The arms are attached to the axle of the spur gears and locked in by a cam. The arms move when the axle rotates. Crown gear makes head to move
through connected axle.
Wheel Chair: First we started with a base. Then we added Lego blocks and attach an axle to the block. We added pulleys to the wheels. Then we added chair over the base and accessories on top of chair. Finally we attached a motor. The motor drives the pulley which is connected to wheels using a rubber band. This makes the wheels to rotate. Wheel Chair helps senior citizen to move around the house.
Car: We started out Super Senior’s car with a very thin body frame and could not fit anything on the top. We increased the base size so that it could fit battery and the motor on top. We had to spend a little more time to fix the battery (from Lego kit). Like a real car we added a top on the motor and made it as a solar panel (not real!). After that we added details like seats, windshield, emergency buttons for Senior to activate when needed. The car has a Solar panel on the top which charges the battery pack (idea only).
The model “Advanced Senior House” has a house with some advanced features addressing senior needs that the team gathered from the interview. These advanced features were modeled to make the senior’s life easier. Some examples are: Automatic front door for the house, Software (WeDo) controlled elevator, advanced wheelchair, Robot that can help senior in his/her daily life, and an advanced car with the motion sensor. The team is using Wedo software for most of the model components while targeting the needs for the seniors.
The “Advanced Senior House” comes with the following:
House: The two-storied house comes with kitchen, leaving room, bath room, upper floor bedroom, and others parts like fence. First we built walls with spaces for doors, windows etc. We added a second floor with pillars to hold it. Then we added a sliding door. Rotating the outside gear will rotate the pulley which in turn rotates another gear hidden inside the house. This eventually makes the door to slide.
Elevator: We used pulleys, LEGO bricks, string, gears, motor, and WeDo software to build our elevator components. Elevator moves with the help of motor, gears, pulleys and strings. The Motor, which is controlled by the WeDo software, drives the elevator to go up and down. This helps our Senior partner to go from one floor to another without using stairs.
Robot: We built a human-like robot with the help of a simple machines (crown and spur gears), cam, LEGO blocks, motor, connector pegs and axles. In this robot, the hands and head move. The crown gear acts as a driver and spins the spur gear in the opposite direction. The arms are attached to the axle of the spur gears and locked in by a cam. The arms move when the axle rotates. Crown gear makes head to move
through connected axle.
Wheel Chair: First we started with a base. Then we added Lego blocks and attach an axle to the block. We added pulleys to the wheels. Then we added chair over the base and accessories on top of chair. Finally we attached a motor. The motor drives the pulley which is connected to wheels using a rubber band. This makes the wheels to rotate. Wheel Chair helps senior citizen to move around the house.
Car: We started out Super Senior’s car with a very thin body frame and could not fit anything on the top. We increased the base size so that it could fit battery and the motor on top. We had to spend a little more time to fix the battery (from Lego kit). Like a real car we added a top on the motor and made it as a solar panel (not real!). After that we added details like seats, windshield, emergency buttons for Senior to activate when needed. The car has a Solar panel on the top which charges the battery pack (idea only).