Cohort: Blue

Egghunt Planning & Progress:

Richard and Trong Action Plan:

Our Progress Throughout the Project

Tasks

1 drive around searching for eggs
2 identify the two different eggs
3 pick up egg when identified
4 drive back to goal when egg is picked up
5 drop egg when at goal

Strategy (how we plan on accomplishing the tasks)

1 Look for an egg by using a random driving pattern and going to the egg when a change in distance is senses
2 Use photo sensors to identify the each different colored egg by their readings and the play and advanced buttons to put the Cr8 into each egg mode.
3 Make a contraption that will be able to hold the egg in place and push it around when the egg is identified.
4 When the contraption has an egg, drive back to the light that's indicating the goal.
5 Identify the goal using photo sensors, then drive towards the light

Point of View

Trong:

As I tried to get an overall view of how the project was going to go, it seemed like 2 simple tasks with one being finding the ball and the other retrieving the ball, but I was soon to find out that I was going to be completely wrong. With my part being finding the ball, I encountered many difficulties that had me go out and seek help from many others other than my partner. Even with the help, it was still a hard task to find the balls.

Richard:

When first getting the project, I thought it would be pretty easy. My part was to identify the ball color and then either reject it or bring it to the goal. Since my previous lab had to do with light sensors i thought i would be able to quicky finish, but that didnt end up being the case. Even thought i used the KISS principle on my part, it still took me a very long time to finish up my coding.

Team:

Overall, we both worked exceedingly hard and we had phenomenal chemistry. We knew how to plan out as a team and distribute the workload evenly. The one thing that we lacked experience in was coding. Although we had a lot of information on C programming, we still had some trouble in coding each of our parts.

Project Management Overview:

Major Challenges:

Coordination Successes/Challenges:

Our coordination successes were that we could both spend a lot of time working together on this project. Most of this time was spent at Umass because we both live around the area. Although we easily set up dats to finish each part of the project, we couldn't reach some of them, whih threw us off.

Problems:

Most of our problems came from the C-Programming aspect of this project.

Things We Would Have Done Differently:

If we had a chance to redo this project, we would have started much earlier than we actually did. We would also ask for more help in the coding, because we both had no prior experience to C-Programming.

Task Divisions:

Overall we both did the same amount of work. While one persom may have done more programming for the team parts of the egghunt, the other made up for it by building more of the hardware and other essential parts of the project.

Results:

Trong:

My portion was to start and seek for the balls so my partner can use the attained ball to score points. It was a very difficult task in that I was forced to ask for the elp of many others.

Richard:

My part of the egghunt was to identify the color of the ball and either reject it or bring it to the goal. Overall i did fairly well on my part, the downside of my code was that i couldn't get my robot to stop after it either rejected the egg or brought it to the goal.

Team:

We still have to combine our codes and see how they work. But when it comes to coding that the combined programs need, we have worked on the yellow/blue switch and also the two-minute timer

Lessons Learned:

Trong

-Effective planning stage.

-Following up on planned goals.

Richard

-How to put pieces of your code into a function.

-It's easier to finish your project when you set goals and follow up on them.

-How to build Hardware

-How to work and coordinate with another person on a big project

-Being patient when programming.

-Don't Procrastinate.

Practical Exam Pages

Richard's Pratical Exam

Trong's Pratical Exam

RichardTrongPlanningPage