Hello citizens of the internet! We are the Commack High School Future Engineer's Club, dedicated to learning and creating new technology here in Commack. Although we just started this blog as of today, June 7th, 2012, we have been creating new things all year! I guess a recap of this year's projects would be a good way to start off the blog, as we won't be doing much over the summer.
The first major event that we participated in this year was our high school's very own Halloween Happening. We made a couple of cool things to help make a fun Halloween for everyone who came, as well as making it easier for everyone else who was running the event. We had an automatic candy dispenser, which was put outside the haunted house. It operated through a Lego NXT, connected to a servo motor and an ultrasound sensor. Whenever kids got close enough to the device, a drawer opened up, filled with candy!
The second thing that we presented was an animatronic skeleton made by our club's president. It was modeled after an exact replica of a real skeleton, so it looks really nice. It essentially was a skeleton body with remote controlled servo motors. When the motors turned, they moved the body with it, and could move in all sorts of cool ways (A lot like Craig Ferguson's "Geoff"). Here are some pictures of it:
Above: The skeleton wearing a clown hat
Above: The skeleton under construction
It was a pretty cool event, with all sorts of fun gadgets. Hopefully next year, we can do something just as exciting! I personally thought it would be fun to set up a fund-raiser type event with a local store, such as Radio Shack. We could make Halloween decorations for people to put up on their homes, and sell them to raise money for the club. It's a bit of an ambitious project, but if we start right away I know we can do it.
Thanks,
Scott
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