Hot bot is coming together very nicely, we already have the arm in place and all we have left is to hook up the motor to the brain, and program it to the controller.

We are actively working and really progressing on our arm idea for hotbot. we've gone through a few ideas and alot of parts but its finally coming together.

here Drew is working hard on hotbot.. what a cutie.

We have a design in mind for our hotbot and as you can see in the photo, theres Nick working hard on how to make our idea a reality!

Today is the first day back from a much needed break. We only wish it could have been longer! We also found out what our next challenge is! it involves tetrahedrons, poles, and creativity!

Day 25

We finished our graded  run and came out with an 80% (which is pretty good considering the circumstances around our robot's behavior).  Now we can relax since all we have to do now is await next week's challenge, whatever it may be.

Day 24

This week we are going to be graded on autonomous so we hope that our robot will be more cooperative.  We have decided on making the robot do wider laps so there's more room for error.  Hopefully we can code enough back-up plans and fail-safes so that even if the robot were to become unpredictable during its final run, it will still complete enough laps to get a good grade.

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.