Introduction
We, the TedBots design thinking group 2019-2020 from Ted Harrison school are made up of 7 students. We plan to create a garbage collecting robot which we call “Colliter-bot.” We plan for this robot to support communities, parks, and other open areas in moving towards a cleaner environment. Currently, we are moving towards understanding the requirements of our different roles (marketers, coders, and builder) which helps us divide and conquer.

December Update
In December, we started to learn the basics of a robotic car. We are using the Elegoo robotic car kits. We are learning about the motors and how you can assemble this to help us with our project. Some of us have started to learn basic coding. We are learning how to code in Python. In the future, we will be learning how to use the Arduino language.

January Update
In January, we continued working with the Elegoo robotic car kits. Also, we intend to use python as our main coding language. If we need to, we will use Arduino language as well. We have been working on a survey, which will be finalized and sent out to our potential customers by the end of this month to get feedback. We also started to look into and learn the Arduino Language. After Robotic car kits, we will start to learn the basics of the camera.

February Update
In February, we have been working more within python using codecademy. Our builders have started to work on a robotic arm. At the beginning of February, the whole group learned how to use the camera. We are becoming more comfortable with our different roles (marketers, coders, and builders), which helps us divide and conquer.

Our initiative is to create a robot that picks up litter in large areas after big events. We want it to help clean the environment and reduce human labour. We will target event planners or urban planners. Our objective or goal is that by the end of this year our robot/program will be able to identify objects and approach them. With this in mind we started our project. First we had learned how to code, so that we could become familiar with different coding languages. We then learned how to put the robot together, so we could use it as a scale model. After that we learned how to manipulate the code of the robot, so that we could make the camera communicate with the robotic chassis.

The video summary submitted includes the three students talking about the project along with two videos from our weekend workshops. One involved working with robotic car kits to discover how they are programmed and how that programming can be manipulated. The other dealt with working with a tracking program on a camera that will be integrated into our robot.