DTE Assessment T3/4 Reflection

 In DTE, my group and I were assigned to think and agree on an idea. After we had chosen the event, era or place etc, we then had to create it with what materials were needed and a code to be created.

 We started off with knowing what we wanted to build which was at first Mad Max but that was scrapped and replaced with the Colosseum. We proceeded to find instructions and cutout pieces then to print them out and cut them, we soon after cutting them and getting the pieces that putting it together wouldn't work, it would be too flimsy and small and that cutting them up would take way too long. That's when we realised using a massive piece of paper, cardboard and sticking them together would be a much better plan due to the size being bigger because we could cut as much as we wanted rather than the parts limiting us. After using some big A1/A2 paper we managed to cut out a strip which we thought was big enough, then we attached cardboard with hot glue and drew blood spills with red felt.

Coding was a problem due to us having to programme it to constantly smash into each other but the unpredictability of them hitting and then sliding off and going straight into a wall could happen so either doing one forward or just doing the driving manually which wouldn't count as coding.

Here is what we got for our coding:

What we wanted:

Personal Reflection:

I found the experience very interesting because we found out some facts about the colosseum before building, they were proving lies/myths were false, ones I've heard and thought were factual. Overall I was not enjoying the entire process since our group wasn't too good at planning and executing ideas, we could have possibly been more concentrated but we kept getting distracted by chatting and slacking. I found the building with cutouts hard and difficult with the edged ones, the DIY paper strip with some cutout pieces worked well. The size could've been bigger but instead, we didn't have enough cutouts and we couldn't print anymore so we had to do with what we got which was a strip of paper approximately 20-60cm, some cut up cardboard and pieces of the cutouts.