Day 23

This week has been a rollercoaster with autonomous.  Even though we were able to do 3 laps successfully in the beginning of the week, the robot has been giving us a hard time with each change in the code we make.  First the motors become inverted, then the left motor has too much power, then the right motor has too much power.  It's getting almost impossible to do more than one lap since the robot's behavior changes even when we try to compensate it with the code.

Today we did manage to get our robot to do 3 full laps on autonomous!! Sadly, not many of us were there to witness it and its been difficult to get the hotbot to do it again. Heres a ground view of the hotbox going around the track

Getting down to the small details on the hot bot's approach to the chairs.

Today we are getting down to the small details on the hot bot's approach to the chairs. On the second lap we kept running into a problem with one motor running faster making it run into the chair. We solved the problem we encountered the same problem on the third lap, we are currently finding a better solution to the problem.

Making the robot drive by itself (autonomous).

Continuing what we did all week which was making the robot drive by itself (autonomous). We are still trying to figure out how to do more laps around the chairs without running into them. Also we are donating our precious time to help Opi's Comet. 

Here is a video of the hot-bot on the go!! We also helped Opi's comets' robot begin moving as well!!

We finally finished our robot on monday but today we completed programming, although a few hiccups with the keys!!!!! look at the next post for a video.

Today we finished mounting the battery and the brain onto our robot, now all we have left is to code it.