My students need to program robots that move. We've been doing physical computing, now it's time to make moving robots with motors and motor controllers.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
The typical student at MC^2 STEM High School comes from the urban Cleveland area. We are a Title I school, so all of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. School is in session year round, only having breaks for 3 weeks quarterly.
STEM education is the emphasis of our curriculum.
Our curriculum is project based. This makes the lessons taught relevant to real world applications. Sometimes, though, we lack the means to provide all of the material for those projects.
My Project
The process of attaching a motor to a Raspberry Pi computer can be difficult. It requires complicated bread-boarding, and the potential for mistakes, shorts, and destroying the equipment is quite high. If my students are to learn how to program and design motor controllers we will need a dedicated piece of equipment to do so.
My students want to make a positive difference in the world.
They're studying civil rights in their social studies class. In my engineering class we're spring-boarding off of this and making robots from these motor controllers and out of the materials from my previous Donor's Choose. We will identify a civil rights issue then design and build a device that will address that civil rights issue.
SB New Motorshield for Raspberry Pi 3,2,1 and ZERO this expansion board can control up to 4 motors or 2 stepper motor, 2 IR sensors and a single ultrasonic sensor.
• Amazon Business
$12.99
25
$324.75
Lethan Rectangular Mini Motor 1.5-3V, 7mm Shaft Length w/ 12" Lead Wires (Pack of 5)
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$10.02
10
$100.20
WAYLLSHINE® 12 Pcs/1 Dozen 2 x 1.5V AA Battery Holder Case Box Black Wire Leads
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$7.99
3
$23.97
Materials cost
$448.92
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$6.73
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$485.65
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$85.70
Total project goal
$571.35
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$571.35
5 Donors
-$343.47
Donations toward project cost
-$295.70
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$47.77
Matching donations from our partners
-$223.47
Match offers toward project cost
-$189.95
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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