Dishing It Out With Thinh and Erin!
Food and Wine Review
Overall I think that we worked well together, dividing the tasks and keeping on schedule. We were both able to complete our seperate halves of the code.
I believe in the strength of this pairing. Both of us really worked hard to complete our tasks on time and the sharing of the robots was delegated eloquently. Also, both halfs of the code worked brilliantly, yet the integration proved to be a tad demanding. The efficiency of both codes really proved the potential in the team. I may have lost a little bit of sanity from working many hours in the robotics lab, but other than that, there were no real large issues. We were successful in programming our codes to work and for them to be in fuctions. We could have cooked up our competition and a bag of chips!
Baked and Ready to Serve: the Results
Individual sections of the code truly worked beautifully!
Erin's Menu
- Search pattern
- Distance sensors to guide robot to test range
- Egg/Wall Differentiation
- Capture Egg
Thinh's Menu
- Identify the Egg Color
- Find the goal.
- Digital sensor to protect arm from breaking.
- Kick the ball into the goal.
- Releasing the ball in opposite direction if wrong color.
Warning: Digestive Issues. Treat with Pepto Bismol.
Although the individual pieces of our code worked beautifully, when combined into one larger code it did not run as expected. This was a result of time constraints, we did not have time to test the final code on the actual course. This lack of testing prevented us from properly debugging the program.
Because of our distance from each other and the inability to completely meet up, it was hard to integrate everything to a final egg hunt. The egg hunt had this issue of rotating wildly because of a loop after sensing and moving one egg. We called this a spontaneous victory dance error. However, the kicking motion of the robot was wildly successful. God Only Knows must have had the genes of David Beckham. The coding worked to find the goal very well even from far away. Also, it was very cool to make the robot protect its arm when the digital sensor was hit. (I would like to thank Mr. Rhine for that idea.) The final product was hot and ready to serve.
Learned Recipes
The major lesson that I learned was that combining codes can be more difficult than it seems and requires more time than we alloted for it.
The greatest lesson I have learned is to always dress nice when going to lab after hours because you never really know who is going to be there! Just Kidding! My actual major lesson was that the development process for any project is going to be long, arduous, frustrating, and perhaps a little insane one. However, this makes the product even more fabulous. Coding takes patience and a whole lot of debugging.
A Thank To Our Sponsors
@@A giant thanks goes to UMass Lowell for its facilities, Mr. Wren for his pictures, Daniela for her pictures, the TEAMs people for making a long project so much better, the Webster little backpack that could for its weather durability, and Mr. Donald Rhine for his outstanding support.
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