Oct. 29, 2010: Friday

     Its been a long time since I've posted on this blog. Last friday, I couldn't post a blog because the class went too fast. Before that, I missed two classes. The teacher said we could post our blog today for last class, which was on Wednesday. So last two classes, the new group and I ( our teacher had been assigned our class new groups for the next project we are now doing) finished a paper on how mars rovers could scour the the planet using a light sensor. Now in class, we are making a project on how our Mindstorm robot could move around four objects using different colors as a guide for the robot. Our group hasn't thought of what to do, but the idea of the project  is to get a feel to how people program robots over at NASA.

Oct. 15, 2010: friday

     Today, the group and I worked on the experiment we were doing two class periods ago. This time, we actually got to program the robot and test it. We got the firmware right on the first try. We tried it a second and third time to see if any variables would be affecting the robot. Nothing happened. All tests were perfect until the last one where we tried adding a sound file to the end of the loop. It ended up messing our experiment. Now, we are working on the conclusion questions on the sheet of paper our teacher gave us at the beginning of the project. We didn't have time to finish.

Oct. 13, 2010: Wednesday

Right when I entered the classroom, the teacher made us go into library resources and click on Noodletools, a site to make bibliographies. I learned how to make an account and make a citation. Someone can use this site for by citing where he got his information from when he/she wants to start the job fast.

Oct. 8, 2010: Friday

Today, my team had to build our robot all over again, because it had been disassembled. My partner and I, though, were doing something else. We were watching tutorials on how to make our Mindstorm robot do cool stuff, like record the temperature or draw a perfect square. The other two people on our team were (as I stated in the beginning of my post) building the robot rather motivated.

Wed. Oct 6, 2010

Today, my group and I worked on trying to figure out the readings of our light sensor on the robot in different places. We had to reconstruct the light sensor so it wouldn't be dangling off the robot before that, though. We recorded the different readings from our robot on a piece of paper our teacher gave us ( more like a packet, but it doesn't matter). We started writing them down toward the end of class.

Oct. 4, 2010: Monday

When I first got to the class, we had a lecture from our teacher about how to come into class right and get right to work. She made us practice how we should get our computers, robot, and bin and get right to our seat. She told us we would have to repeat it until we got it right, but luckily we only had to do it once. After that, we finished practicing how to use the sensors on the robot from yesterday. Today, we practiced using the sound and ultrasonic sensors on the robot. We had to correct the firmware for the sound sensor over 3 times, but we got the ultrasonic sensor to work on the first round.