Meadow Maker Lab

Today we got to meet in the Meadow Maker Lab with guides Melissa, Casey, Nate, and Jessica. We started our day building scribble machines with access to a variety of materials: motor, wire, 9v and 3v batteries, alligator clips, tape, berry basket, writing utensils,more tape, twist ties, "broccoli" bands, balloons, LEDs, binder clips, clothes pins and white butcher paper.

I had the benefit of having already made a scribble bot a few times before - and just last week. However, I decided that before I built anything, I needed to test my battery connection to my motor. I spent the entire time trouble-shooting my connection. I tried alligator clips with the 9v and the motor = nope. I tried alligator clips with the 3v and the motor = nope. I tried stripping wire and attaching to the 9v and the motor = nope. I tried stripped wire attached to the 3v and motor = nope. Finally, I decided that maybe the motor does not work - so I tested the 3v battery with a new motor that already had wires attached = success!! However, since I spent so much of my time "getting it to work" I lost steam on wanting to iterate the design of the scribble bot; I was happy to have it make movement -- at -- all.