Samuel, in Year 10, has developed an intelligent hand sanitiser robot out of Lego that dispenses hand sanitiser without the need to touch the bottle and gives you just the right amount, reducing waste. It even says ‘thank you’ at the end.
After researching existing designs he got to work developing his own robot. He programmed it through a Lego Mindstorms intelligent brick. It works using cameras at the back so that when you put your hand under the ultrasonic sensors the rotary motor spins to create the movement required to dispense the sanitiser. Samuel has programmed the sensors to sense your hand from 7cm away to avoid having to touch the robot.
Click here for a short video of Samuel explaining how it works.
Samuel has worked on this in his own time and during Robotics Club at school. It now sits proudly in the entrance hall at Sherfield School for students and staff to use.
“At Sherfield School and especially within the Design & Technology department we champion innovative problem solving projects like this. Samuel has worked extremely hard to develop the product through research and hours of testing, in order to make it a high quality reliable product.”
Ben Marshall, Head of Design & Technology