Diary+Of+the+Robotic+Democrats

=Diary Of The Robotic Democrats=

2/11/2011

So I thought I'd try something different and put a 'diary' entry here. Basically it's an evaluation of what the team did/ or will do. This week: The First Sign Of Life The programming team managed to get the robot to move. This was with Brian's code. It's good to see the robot moving again. The First Signs of Life are always the best. The code just needs to be adjusted and it would be perfect. Now we need to test the rest of the programming team's code. We also need to know how to get the tetrix motors and the servos working. Hopefully that won't be terribly difficult. I was thinking about how using RobotC this year will change programming. I think it'll be much better as one problem we had last year was moving the 2 servos in opposite directions. I believe we can now do it this year with robotC as we now have more control over the code. (or at least I think we do) You never know with programming.

I believe the engineering team is close to finish with the design. James said we need some parts so whoever has the shopping list, put it on the wiki and whoever knows where to get what, put your name next to the item and get those things. We'll get the school to pay you back. It'd be nice to get the parts quick, especially the wood so we can build the field and start strategising, programming and building. I'll be coming in tomorrow during my free after break to try my hand at some programming. I might try to get virtual worlds on there so the programmers can test everything offline for now.

That's it for this week's diary entry. Hopefully there'll be more good news next week.

p.s. Feel free to put your own diary entries in here.

-Audrey