Aiming For The Grade

Today is Friday the 15th, We previously mentioned we hope to complete this challenge today for our final grade of autonomous bot. We have to complete 2 and 1/2 laps in order to get a A for this challenge, we really need it because our group is far behind and are at low grade averages. After today we hope to leave this class better then we came in.

2 Laps

We have made progress. Our square bot can accomplish 2 full laps before it crashes into the chairs. The first lap is very clean with a simpler 2nd lap to complete 2 full laps. It took us awhile due to all of the adjustments and what not we had to make to the program. We hope to have the square bot programmed to due at most 4 laps for a A by friday the 15th.

Blogger

Today we are taking a break from our bot and are currently updating our blogger. This primarily is to benefit you guys so that everyone can see our progress and we can collect our thoughts on everything that has been happening with our engineering class.

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.