Thursday, July 23, 2009

Thursday, July 23

Brad and Krista started wrapping up the racing activity. Some pretty awesome race car (and horn) sound files have been added to make the races a little more interesting. The teacher and student folders are each almost complete, both including a function cheat sheet. The only major thing left to do is to make a file with an example of a track, with dimensions, so it can be reproduced elsewhere. Krista also started on the formal write-up for the gyro sensor and braille labeled the robots that will be traveling this weekend.

Fara wrote the color sorting program for the recycling bot which works great when it is run on it's own, but has some problems running with the entire program. Reza has helped with a few little blockers and Fara intends on continuing the work tomorrow.

Reza got the tracking functions for the snake predator to completely work but needs to make a slight change to the design to allow the touch sensor to be pushed, without having the bot flipping the prey or itself over. He plans on working on more of the cricket predator tomorrow morning before he leaves for Chicago.