Robotics Trivia
Any machine programmable by a computer, that runs on its own, automatically.
What is a Robot?
What is the last step of the Engineering Design Process?
What is Share/Communicate?
A set of instructions wrote for a computer.
What is a program?
True or False: You can change sizes of shapes in TinkerCAD
What is true?
A device that powers a mechanism
What is a motor?
This mechanism helps to lift/pull objects
What is a 4 bar/6 bar lift?
True or False: You can't go backwards in the Engineering Design Process
What is false?
A block that allows you to create your own function
What is the "Define" block?
What does CAD stand for?
What is Computer Aided Design?
This helps with organization, identifying issues, collaboration, and communication
What is documentation/notbeooking?
This mechanism transfers power among gears that face each other at a 90 degree angle
What is a 'Bevel Gear'?
What is the third step of the Engineering Design Process?
What is Design?
A loop that takes in a condition and returns something whether it is false or true
What are if, then, else loops?
Why is CAD helpful for engineers?
It is more precise than human sketches, contains measurements and real-life visualization, can be animated, etc.
How many teams play in an IQ match?
What is 2 teams?
What is the proportion of one gears size to another gears size? (Hint: it has to do with the number of teeth a gear has)
What is a gear ratio?
While brainstorming ideas in the imagine stage, what is more important: quality or quantity?
What is quantity?
A sensor that measures rotational motion
What is a 'Gyro' sensor?
True or False: CAD is only used to create 3D models
What is False?
The device that stores all of the information about multiple mechanisms. It is the main 'computer' on a robot
What is the Brain?
What are the names of the Mars Exploration Rovers?
True or False: Every engineer ALWAYS follosws the Engineering Design Process when trying to solve a problem
What is True?
Returns a value 'true' or 'false'
What is a "Boolean"?.
Name 2 real-life CAD applications
What are Onshape, Autodesk Fusion, Protobot, SolidbWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Solide Edge
The part of the match in which the player has full control over the robot using their controller
What is 'User Control'?