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= poptarts = = Our Cricket Project =



image source: llk.media.mit.edu

Our Brainstorm of Ideas:
self cleaning house house cooking automatic pet feeder
 * **Team Member 1: Nate**

Helping Hand Self cleaning house Expandable room Laundry by voice input washer that automatically turns to dryer automatic am announcments all students have "smart-pens' for their laptops house messenger- lets you know when you need food and does shopping for you
 * **Team Member 2: kris**
 * **Team Member 3: Mrs. Fabrizio**

Our Design Plans:
Incredible expandable room



**Our Materials:**

clay, cardboard, pico-cricket, masking tape, computer

Our Connections:
To design something for a smarthome or school. We chose a home. We decided on making a bedroom that expands and underneath there is a pool. >

Mining the Process:
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We couldn't get the friction to work to have the bed slide out to see the pool. We were not on the right surface. We forgot to save our picocricket and we lost power so we lost the program that was designed.
 * ===**Technical Challenges:**===

We kept trying different ways to make the cardboard move. We tried styrofoam ball, short stick, long stick, two styrofoam balls, and clay. We tried taping the motor down, we tried taping cardboard down in various ways. We cut the board lengthwise to make it not turn and slide. We did a lot of talking, some interrupting and but we kept trying many things.
 * ===**Strategies we tried for working through these challenges:**===

Not saving our work!
 * ===**Wrong Turns:**===

Could this work with bigger items? Would it work better if the clay was smoother? What caused the turning of the top piece? How lost would we have been if we did not use the clay.
 * ===**New/Remaining Questions:**===


 * ===**Future Iterations**: If you had more time to work on your creation, what would you add? What would you change?===

**Our Day's Work:**

 * Expandable bedroom**