Davis Creek Elementary RCX Graphing Sensor Data

Davis Creek Elementary
LEGO Projects
Graphing Sensor Data

This car also has an angle sensor and a touch sensor to measure angles and the touch sensor allowed data to be gathered at each touch.

Mrs. Hamilton and two fifth grade students designed a robotic machine to measure temperature.
Using a RCX, a small computer, equipped with a temperature sensor and ROBOLAB INVESTIGATOR software
program to graph the results, the students measured the temperature in the classroom and outside.

We took temperature readingsOctober 30, 2000 in our fifth grade classroom. The room was about 73 degrees. Touching the touch sensor on the robot for a little bit caused the temperature to go up to 80 degrees and more. Going out side we took a temperature reading by pushing the touch sensor. It was cold out side. In the time we were out there the temperature reading only went down to 47 degrees even though we could see frost on the grass.

The blue marks when touching the sensor, the red is the temperature in the classroom, and the green is the temperature outside, then inside as the temperature got warmer and warmer.
Would you like your temperature checked?
Our RCX robot is ready to work!

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Created 11 / 3 / 2000
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