Journal Entry 7-23-09

yesterday in the morning we tried to to finish the third maze by using the line counting and in the afternoon we try to do the new maze which is very hard from the other mazes we did before so we dontated pieces of our robot to make a new robot and dannie tried to do the code and after that dannie left with brandon so we were left with code.......

07-22-09

Today was full of ups and downs. At the start of the day, we had two task. One task involved us updating our blogs. The other task was to attach a sound sensor to our robot. We coulnd't do the first task because we had some technical dificulty with our laptop, which I can not talk about because it will jeopardise our mission. Then for the second task we had our special engineering working on it. With Anh's skills and brain he was able to put the sound sencor on in less then 20 seconds, which even suprise Beckal. Not only was he suprise he was also jealous at Anh's engineering skills. After attaching the sound sensor we had to learn how to program it. The proces was so long and boring I can not talk about it, because I was not paying attention to the lesson. By the time we was done with the program lesson it was lunch time. At lunch it was very disappointing. The quality of the food was poor, and the pizza was black, last time I reacall pizza was suppose- to be yellow and chessy. Then after lunch we had to work on the website. We were able to make a moive thanks to Beckal work, adding the music, and putting the clips together. Then we ended our day by chilling.

Journal Entry 7-22-09

yesterday we did codes with line counting we also added the light sensor to the robot. and we also tried to rebuilt anh's claw because it was horrible and we tried to complete the maze and after that it was booooooooooooring !!!!!!!!




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These are a set of picture we took over the course of the program so far.

07-17-09

Today we started our day off by updating our blog, uploading our pictures to our website. After updating our blog it was lunch time. After eating lunch we went over sound and touch censor. The value of the touch censor is 0 when it is not pushed, and 1 when it is pushed in. With the new knowledge we just obtain we used it to program our robot to move backward and when it hits the wall it either turns or go forward. At the end of the day we just updated the blog.

07-15-09

Today we had to update our blog on blogger. After updating it we had to translate a set of code into human language. At first the instruction weren't clear therefor we all did the wrong translation. After the instruction was cleared up , we then went over it with the class. By the time we were done it was lunch time. At lunch we had pizza, which wasn't surprising because they serve pizza everyday. The slices were so small we had to get seconds. After lunch we were given a new challenge. The challenge was to get the robot to use out sonar censors to go around 3 boxes. It took us only 10 minutes to create the code but it didn't work. So it took us 2 hours to correct it, and it still didn't work. Then finnly we ended our day by updating our blog.

Journal Entry 7-15-09

yesterday we did a bunch of codes in the board to do a task that anh my team member did the the task was to use the sonar sensor and we did bunch if/else statements the board.

Sonar Test

Today in class we were introduced to a new challenge made by our own member Anh Nguyen
the task was to use the sonar senors and finish the task basically the task was to keep the robot hitting the box and the wall. as a class we came up with right code.

Below is the code :

"
void ss ()
{
while(SensorValue(sonarsensor) > 45 )
{ motor[motorC]=100;
motor[motorB]=100;
{
motor[motorB]=0;
motor[motorC]=0;
wait1Msec(2000);
}
void rightturn()
{
nMotorEncoder[motorB]=0;
nMotorEncoder[motorA]=0;
nMotorEncoderTarget[motorC]=379;
while(nMotorEncoder[motorC] < 379;
{
motor[motorC]=100;
motor[motorB]=100;
}
motor[motorC]=0;
motor[motorB]=0;
wait1Msec(1000);
task main ()
{
ss();
rightturn();
nMotorEncoder[motorB]=0;
nMotorEncoder[motorC]=0;
ss();
nMotorEncoderTarget[motorB]=0;
nMotorEncodertarget[motorC]=0;
while (nMotorEncoder[motorB]> 0)
{
motor[motorB]= -100;
motor[motorB]= -100;
}

motor[motorC]=0;
motor[motorB]=0;
wait1Msec(2000)

target
}


"

Journal Entry (7-14-09)

Yesterday we remember doing the while loops and if else statements in class and after lunch we went to a field trip to the department of Energy to see a hybrid race car which was very cool. After that we went to the African arts museum and the Asian museum and after that the bus came and we all went to school to clock out and we went home.