Work with your partner, both partners do equal work, don't let a one teammate dominate.
Do not unplug any of the cables, including all sensors, serial cable or power.
Do not set your power higher than 5 on the wheels.
Do not let robot fall off table, please.
Have fun.
Teams
Everyone has been assigned a robot and a teammate.
I selected the teammates by a beauty quotient.
It's a well known fact that ugly people work better with pretty people.
Every team has one pretty person and one ugly person, look at your teammate, which one are you? Sure you are.....
That's not true, the teams are totally random, no "pretty quotient" although I think it would work, I know I always work better with an ugly person.
If you are a person that is struggling in the class do not let your partner do everything, use this time to learn from your classmate. Include your ideas on solving the problem.
Nobody be a robot/code hog.
Step One
First you will need to download the project, it is a zipped file that you
will need to unzip on your computer before you can use it.
The example program covers all the sensors and motors on the robot.
You scroll through the sensors using the thumbwheel on the robot board.
Sensors
Once you get the sensor you want to show up press the start button to start the sensor (the start button doesn't always work the way
we want it to so you might have to push it more than once. Test each sensor, make sure each sensor is working. Press the start button
a second time to stop the sensor.
Wheels
Rotate the thumbwheel to one of the wheels. Press start to go to the Wheel class code. Press start again to start the motor turning.
Press the stop button to stop the wheel.
To Do:
Download the code.
Open the project
Compile and load the code
Test all 7 sensors
Test both wheels
Example Video of part of the sample program running
This is the wrong video, I'm trying to upload the video again, but for
some reason it's only accepting one video, hopefully by class time I'll
have it up and running.
Now open a new project and create your own program that will move the robot.
Your robot should traverse the paper and in the display it should state whether it's traversing a white or a black part of the paper.
Advanced
If you complete that try to count the black lines and print out the results every time you count a new black line.
Here is a video of a robot completing the task:
Really advanced:
You won't have time, but think about it if you've never done it.
Have your robot follow a black line based on the difference between the white and black.