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   | The Robot

What does it do?

drives in a spiral search pattern, looking for socks
when it finds a sock, it picks it up with the claw
sorts laundry whether it is black and white and drops it in either of the two baskets
returns to its search pattern
times out after two minutes

I did these different tasks...

planned out and built the robotic arm (one week)
created individual functions for the different movements of the robotic arm (2 days)
experimented with my different sensors and sensor values (2 days)
created the code in its entirety (3 days)

Problems you may (hopefully not) see...

- My servo motor does not seem to have the strength to turn my robot's arm

- The light levels in each room can change my robot's efficiency at sorting laundry by color

- Sometimes my wires become tangled; hopefully I have remedied this

- add effective bump sensors and distance sensors to prevent the robot from driving into the wall

- streamline the design of the robot

- fix everything that doesn't quite work!