5/24/2012

Today when we came to class, our attachment was missing AGAIN!! Also, there were sensors missing, so we had to reattach that too! We had to rebuild it. It didn't quite turn out how we wanted it. My partner and I worked on the egg challenge again. We had trouble with it running into to volcano. After the egg challenge, we checked our tape challenge, but there were some programming blocks missing, so we had to add some. Then, when we test our robot, it didn't turn in the right direction, so we had to change that also.

5/22/2012

Today we had a lot of problems with our robot. When we got our robot, he was almost destroyed, his sensor was hanging off and our attachment was not there. We had to reattach the sensor and remake our attachment. After we attached our pieces, we worked on our egg challenge. Our robot did not to the same as last week, so we edited some of the programming.

5/16/2012

Today, my partner and I discovered that our programming did not save. We had to remake what our robot did. After we programmed it, we noticed that our attachment was gone! We had to sit there and rebuild our attachment. We couldn't get it exactly the same as it was before, but it served the same purpose. When we first tested our robot, it kept hitting the volcano, so we made it to where he did not push the egg too far out of the circle. I added wait time blocks, so we could see what we needed to do to help our robot succeed. We figured out that we should make the robot turn wider so it's not in the path of the volcano.

5.14.2012

Today, my partner and I tried to finish the egg challenge. We started off our robot, and it wouldn't turn, so we made the turn a lot wider. That helped fix the problem. After that, our robot wasn't going far enough so we made our rotations longer. When we fixed our rotations, we got our robot to get one of the eggs out. Then, we programmed Tigger to go back to the other egg. After we got our robot to the other egg, we had to start blogging, so that is as far as we got today!

5/10/2012

Today we tried to to do the cube challenge and the egg challenge. Our robot would not turn again, so we made its turn wider. We also had to add a longer attachment so it could push the eggs successfully. Whenever we were trying the cube challenge, we could figure out how our robot would move the cubes without going crazy. To fix that, we thought of building a new attachment to "catch" the cubes. We never actually started to build it, but we thought of ideas we could use.

5/8/2012

Today my partner and I attached the attachment we are using to "grab the tape". At first, we had problems with our robot not turning at all. To fix that, I made the turn a lot wider and switched to to turn the other way. This worked, but we did not have the right amount of rotations for our robot to make it without running into things. We changed and tested our robot about five or six times. I had to put in wait blocks so we could see what our robot was doing. Finally, on the last try, we got our robot to turn successfully, but he did not reach the point he was supposed to. My partner and I did not attempt to solve the cube challenge or egg challenge.

April 30, 2012

Today my partner and I were supposed to start a plan. We didn't really understand the challenge that the plan was about, so Mr. Wegscheid explained the challenge to us. Me and my partner started thinking about what we could do. We also started gathering our screenshots for our paper. Now, we need to figure out what attachment we will add to our robot and make a plan for how our robot will solve the challenge! :)