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Mailbot

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What the work shows

Harry and Richard identified a local community issue, concerning the difficulty some elderly people have in collecting their mail. They developed a letterbox and a working model of a remote control mail collector called "Mailbot".

The following sections detail the work, and indicate what was achieved at each stage.

For classroom background and teaching and learning sequence, see The learning context.

Selecting an opportunity Selecting an opportunity
Developing ideas Developing ideas
Testing the Mailbot in action Testing the Mailbot in action
Results of testing Results of testing
Future ideas Future ideas

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