Trashbots Medium.com Archive / November 17, 2017 Share: Author: Evan Lerner Trashbots “Trashbots” was a workshop developed by Kod*lab’s Sonia Roberts and Diedra Krieger for the event “Be a Pennovator” as part of the 2017 Philadelphia Science Festival. Middle school students created locomoting robots using motors, 2 rechargable AAA batteries, post-consumer materials, wire, laser cut acrylic and basic art supplies. The concepts of energy and physical programming were demonstrated using working Trashbots and practiced during an introductory exercise making a vibrating motor from a spinning one. Participants then created a legged robot of their own design using iterative experimentation and took their final creations home with them. Read More Deep Jariwala Among Forbes 30 Under 30: Science Penn Engineers Develop Microchip Laser Stabilizer, Enabling Faster Data Transfer
