Strategy for Egg Hunt

Outline of what code should do:

have the robot drive in a random-like fashion
set the photo resistor to sense the colored balls(each color might have a different objective)
drive close enough to the ball for the servos to close in on the ball to pick it up
based on the color:

Bad colors: back the robot up and drop servo, so ball will roll out of shovel
Good colors: have the robot drive until it finds a wall and then use wall following, presuming the drop pit is surrounded by tape, have the robot follow the wall until that color tape is sensed, then release the ball with the servos

5. after ball is dropped, have the robot turn 180 degrees away from where it is and then drive randomly again until another ball is spotted

how we are separating the work:

Task	Description	Who
Which Color To Start	wait for advanced or play button to be pressed	Ryan
Which Ball To Look For	look for different ranges of values	Ryan
Random Movement Until Wall	Move around randomly to collect balls	Ryan
Pick Up Ball	pick up the ball.	Ryan
Detect Color	determine whether it is the right or wrong color	Eric
Find The Goal	use light sensors and proportional control to find the goal	Eric
Stop and Score	stop in front of the goal and drop the ball	Eric
Hardware	build the equipment	mostly Ryan with very little help from eric

Ryan: work i have done so far

since the robotic arm doesnt work, i had to build a new setup for the shovel i had built previously for the arm
to build the new hardware, i used two servos, legos, the old shovel and duct tape
the servos are not as powerful as i had hoped, so i had to cut the shovel down so the servos could move its weight
after tests, i updated the egg hunt program with the new info. i will put up the program soon
the new setup is a shovel run by two servos and after much trial and error, i decided to find the ball with a touch sensor and a photo resistor, when both activated then ball is found
i did this because i have problems with light values for the yellow ball, the ball and nothing in the shovel gave nearly the same values

Eric: work I've done

I built the base for our equipment.
I revamped a light following program to find the goal.
I worked out some of the bugs in our new code, Ryan did that as well.
Much of the original hardware, I developed, but fell through when the claw's servos turned out to be too weak.

Ryan Mr. Rhine said tat the changing light sensor values means the sensor is screwed up. He ssaid that we should replace it.