Hi…
So before I start I just want to say a big thank you to Mrs Bennett, who made the ramp for us, and even though it brought on a lot of new challenges, it was fun to solve. If we hadn’t gotten a ramp I’m pretty sure we would have showed up at the competition unprepared to work with the ramp. So, thanks Mrs Bennett…
This week was our first week back at robotics this term, and we worked on getting the robot up the ramp again. Over the holidays Rich changed the sensors on the robot by putting them a little closer to the wheels, so that when it went up the ramp the robot wouldn’t detect its shadow to much.
At first we just tested our codes to see if they would still work after the sensors had been changed, and guess what ,THEY STILL DID! We all had different thoughts on whether it would still work or not and most of us guessed it wouldn’t, but well its good to be wrong sometimes…
My code actually worked better with the sensors down, I didn’t even have to change anything. The thing that surprised me was that the robot was following the lines, going over the ramp, turning when it found hints. It was doing all these things really well with my code, but the surprising thing was that I didn’t even have a hint detector in my code. So I’m still not completely sure how it was working.
The last challenge I had was that the robot would get through the whole course, it went up the ramp but when it came down it wouldn’t stop on silver. So I changed my code and finally the robot went up the ramp, then down and when it got to silver it actually stopped! But, (there’s always a but) in doing so the robot no longer worked when it came to detecting the hints. So this time I’ll have to work out how to fix that.
Goodbye, for now…