Take Control

Aims

Pupils should note how:

• technology has enabled us to take control of our environment
• every system has an input, process and output
• systems are important in all aspects of Design & Technology work in schools
• electronic control systems depend upon switches and electronic sensors
• a robot is a multi-system mechanism with a memory which can be programmed to perform a function
• robots have become essential for certain sorts of work
• when designing robots, experts in electronics must work closely with experts in mechanisms