WEEK 8: 3/14/17

It's official, Richie is a stud. He is by far our best driver. Just a couple days into our new task, he was able to successfully manuever the bot to place two tetrahedrons on top of the post for a grand total of 100 points. He had to do it in one minute and it only took him fifty seconds. We also made a tetrahedron of our own out of pencils. We were the only the team on that task and were the first to finish it. Now we have to set the bot up three tiles away and code it to pick up the tetrahedron and place it on the post autonomously. #wedemengineeringboyz

WEEK 7: 3/10/17

This week we built our fork-like mechanism. We have added an arm to our Square Bot. We've coded it and it works. We have to build another Tetrahedron figure. To complete this task, we have to, using the remote controlled bot, pick up and place two Tetrahedron on the post in one minute for 100 points (50 points each). We need more practice with the bot because right now it is difficult. Real Deal is leading the pack! 

WEEK 7: 3/6/17

Week 7 is a go! We were the first group to successfully accomplish programming our robot to circle the chairs autonomously. On to the next challenge. Now we have to get our robot to pick up the  tetrahedron and place it on the post. Our goals this week are to program our Square bot to follow the remote control. We also need to build onto our robot's infrastructure and add a forklift-like mechanism. #getmoneyspendmoney 

WEEK 6: 3/3/17

Today marked the end of Week 6. We were officially the first group to successfully have our Squarebot circle the chairs three times autonomously. Now we have to start the polygon vex challenge. We don't know what that requires, yet. But we'll get it. REAL DEAL ON TOP!

Week 6: 2/28/17

Week 6 is underway. We originally wrote the code to circle the chairs once and then looped it to repeat. That had problems so we just repeated the code 3 times. The code works but the robot often veers to the left and runs into the chairs. We need to overcome this setback and get the Squarebot to perform more consistently. Persevering!

WEEK 5: 2/24/17

 

Today we are trying to finish code our square bot. It is proving to be very difficult. The robot is able to move forward and make turns autonomously but we are running into problems. After it goes around the chairs it does a couple 360 turns that we don't want. Also, the right motor isn't functioning properly. We hope to resolve these problems ASAP!!!

WEEK 5: 2/21/17

This week we start coding our square bot! We received our first challenge from Mr Martin which is to go around two chairs which cover eight floor tiles. This will be very challenging because we cannot use the controller to do this, it must be autonomous. We are trying to finish this challenge as fast as we can so that we can be one step ahead of the game. We are truly THE REAL DEAL!