Building Solar Robots for Kids - STEM Week Continues with Solar Projects Page-2

Building Solar Robots for Kids - STEM Week Continues with Solar Projects

Season:1
Episode:12
Page Number:2

Mr. Dog Poop: All right. So, this is a motor or something?

Jeff: Or something.

Mr. Dog Poop: What is it? Is it going to turn, I assume the solar panel is the same as the battery.

Jeff: Oh.

Mr. Dog Poop: This is the smallest motor I've ever seen in my life. Look at this thing. It's tiny, but it is a motor. Let me get a light over here. I'm going to bring a light up and see if this motor actually turns. There's a whole bunch of gears and stuff. OH, no, wait, I think maybe one of these little things goes on there. Let's see.

Jeff: Ow.

Mr. Dog Poop: Yeah, that doesn't go on there.

Jeff: Parents will definitely need to take these out for their kids.

Mr. Dog Poop: No, I think, no, you can use something like this. So, these are little diagonals, little wire cutters, and you can clip pretty close.

Jeff: Maybe that's why they say diagonal cutter or scissors may be needed.

Mr. Dog Poop: Did they say diagonal cutters?

Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm just using my hands, because I mean, I'm basically a cave man.

Mr. Dog Poop: You're basically a cave man. So, these pieces can be cut out.

Jeff: Yeah, it would probably be less.

Mr. Dog Poop: I mean, I have employees that do this for me. I didn't freaking pick up dog poop my whole life so that I would have to do this

Jeff: You know what, until I started on the Man Show, my anxiety was always about finishing things too early if you catch my drift.

Mr. Dog Poop: Yep, yep, yep.

Jeff: Now it's like, I hope I can finish before time is up.

Mr. Dog Poop: Well, you know, that's going to be good. It's going to be good for you because you know, when you're finishing early, you won't have the psychological problems.

Jeff: Oh yeah, yeah. Now I'll be like, hey, I'm in an industry where you got to be quick.

Mr. Dog Poop: You'll be in bed with your girlfriend or whoever, whatever you happen to find, girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever happens to be that week. And you'd be like, are you kidding me? You should be thanking me for finishing early.

Jeff: Yeah. You obviously don't watch the Man Show.

Mr. Dog Poop: Obviously don't watch the Man Show. That's a skill.

Jeff: Ugh.

Mr. Dog Poop: We don't even have enough time to cut these parts out.

Jeff: Yeah. That I'm motoring through trying to get these parts out. But yeah, our clock is going to start getting aggressive by the time we're done.

Mr. Dog Poop: You know, I should have known eight plus, I mean, a three year old project we couldn't finish. I should have known eight plus was going to be a problem. I mean, what have we got the next two days? It just seems like it gets worse.

Jeff: Oh, tomorrow I'm going to burn my hands off.

Mr. Dog Poop: Or we soldering tomorrow?

Jeff: I think that's tomorrow. Maybe it's Friday, one of these days. And then there's a piano. I think we're building.

Mr. Dog Poop: Oh, I think the piano might be Friday.

Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. There's no pants. That thing is intimidating.

Mr. Dog Poop: The piano, it's a music board, basically a synthesizer that you can rewire. Now, if I throw this thing out, how do I know if I have pieces left on it? I guess I was supposed to read the instructions.

Jeff: Yeah.

Mr. Dog Poop: I mean, this is really a project that's really screwing up our young men because they're going to have to read instructions. How are boys going to be men? How are they going to grow into men if they have to read instructions?

Jeff: I'll be honest. You know, my son was into Legos, and they come with these big books. You know, you have to read how to put these big fancy things together. And I'm like, I don't remember that as a kid. Maybe my parents were just poor, but I didn't have instructions. I had to build with my imagination. And I think that's a better place.

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