3/5/2012

Today in class we were given a task to work on for the duration of the class time.  Our task was to complete seven straight sections of the maze we used in previous assignments.  But to make it different for each student we were each given an intersection of the maze to start at and if two students started at the same intersection, one went towards the Start of the maze and one towards the Finish.  So, a student might start in the middle and go towards the Finish, but it might only take four straight sections to reach the Finish, so the robot would have to turn around and complete two more sections.  We were allowed to use speed control if we wanted but it wasn't required.  We also had to have the robots make the turns by pivoting with both wheels, in order to demonstrate that we could program the wheels to go backwards, instead of making of turn with one wheel turning and one stationary.  My robot was able to complete the sections with a few minor manual corrections during the run.  Dr. Bronakowski said that was fine and I received credit.  I unfortunately forgot to take video of my robot during the run.