Trials

We have been working no stop in order to get our square bot to move a lap around the chair track. Its been a rough year for our group, we have had many setbacks and dont know if we will even pass 4th quarter because of this challenge but we hope to get this completed and done.

Autonomous

This friday we have started to program our square bot for the autonomous challenge. The challenge consists of laps for grades. Every lap we complete on autonomous we get a certain percentage of points. We have completed at least a whole lap and are on the way to complete 3.

The End

Today is a rather good Monday. On Friday a couple of our members( Algermaine the great , and Henry he magnificent) had stayed after class to work on our square bot, To my surprise they did it! They have made our robot capable of movement. It can finally move! After weeks of errors and programming our bot is now fully capable of moving with the controller. In the next few days we hope to have autonomous completed.

Maintenance

Our square bot has seen better days, especially the day after finally building it. Today we have took a long needed break from programming and dealing with error after error with no success. We have decided to do a maintenance check and repair. We are making sure all our nuts and bolts are not about to fall off and we are making sure our motors and batteries are retaining power.

Whats been happening

As previously mentioned we have made progress in the movement of our square bot. We have had teacher assistance along with peer guiding to help us solve the what we are calling a mystery about whats wrong with our bot. We can program basic autonomous movements but cannot for the sake of life pair our robot and controller. We hope to get this all done by this week.

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.