Task 5, Day 4, 10/27/2009

From the previous team meeting, the group decided to follow through with designing a helio-bot, a mobile robot. Some of the characteristics we deemed important to investigate and implement in the design were as follows.

• always follows the sun: energy hungry/social commentary
• algae for hydrogen: perhaps using bio-luminescent algae
• hydrogen and solar cells: hydrogen to generate power for movement, and solar cells to power the "brain" (i.e. GPS)
• acrylic cylindrical tubes to be used as internal light source: bring light inside the algae
• design based off of animals that are sun hungry: cold blooded, reptiles
• waste products: water balloons?

After discussing our ideas for the helio-bot, we further broke down the essentials to have figured out and assigned tasks/research to be fullfilled by the next team meeting

Things we need to discover/figure out

• form
• movement
• algae and process
• materials
• solar cells
• power stats

Again, six topics of research, six team members...everyone had a crucial part in further developing this project