Troubles Gone?

 Coming in with our progress  made from last week. We have finally figured out what was troubling our "Armadillo "robot. We are now on the right path and finally stopped it from going only in a circle. We are continuing on our path to Autonomous but we are still far away from completing our robot before we do Autonomous we still have to program  our robot to work with the controller. This weeks goal will be trying to finish off out robot to do the manually and autonomous and get ready for our 2nd challenge next week. which involves us building a hand like component on our robot to pick up tetrahedron and place them on a pedestal like object for points .                                                                                          

Moving Forward!

We have finally come to see the light of day. Mentioned in our last post the bot spun in circles and make a irritating sound of a repeated (WHEE) but times have changed our square bot has made some progress over the last couple of days. Our bot when turned on now moves forward instead of circles, We hope to have it fully programmed soon.

Back from spring break and ....

We came back from spring break with a happy heart to only remember how behind our robot is. All it does is spin in a circle which we have yet to find a proper solution to. Today we have been given another deadline on another challenge , but to the extent we have yet to finish the first deadline and actually program our to move other then a flippin circle....(WHEEE WHEE WHEE WHEE WHEE) the sound it forever makes as we turn it on.

Spring Break

Spring break is coming up in the next couple of days. We are still programming our square bot up till the last day before spring break. We are always having difficulties with the RobotC firmware and VEX Pic controller. We have been encountering many errors and hope to complete the programming before our little week of vacation. The errors include many different things, but most simple.

Programming Continued: The Sequel Post 3

Monday, Marks the third period of programming our square bot. We have set numerous deadlines but failed to meet them We have finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. We have realized our recent mistakes and have been trying to fix them. We are closing our goal but we still have not finished programming for autonomous (or how ever you spell that god awful word). Our goal this week is to somehow finish programming and finish autonomous (yea that word).

Programming Continued....

Today we are still working on the programming portion of our square bot. We have had difficulties such as it seems always. We have had a problem of getting the bot to move in any other direction besides a circle. Either we have mis-programmed our bot or the factory settings are not set to default. This is a difficult and lengthy process to find out whats wrong, we are doing everything we possibly can to find a solution. Hopefully by Monday everything will be figured out.

Programming

Today we have continued on the process of programming our square bot for the ability of movement and control. We are using RobotC to program our square bot. By downloading certain files containing code we will be able to move and gain full control to our bot. Through the week we plan on getting past this stage and begin more advanced maneuvers.