Agenda:
- Calibrate Ramp
- Discuss Strategy
- Continue Autonomous Code
- Manipulator Arm
Ethan taught Jared how to start the blog entry. Nolan and Nick are calibrating the ramp. Kevin is working on the autonomous code. Tucker and Penelope are working on the manipulator arm.
After calibrating the ramp we tested it out on the robot and we first thought that the robots front was jamming in the ground while still on the ramp then we found out that that was the back of the robot so there are no problems besides giving it another arm to press the ramp back down and return to its starting position.
- I saw that the robot couldn’t get up the ramp because the push sensors on the back were running-a-ground and stopped the robot from getting up the ramp. I suggested that he goes up the ramp backwards and it worked.
- I came up with a theory that the thing at the end of the dump mechanism could also serve as a pickup-type thing. It scoops up pucks off the ground and puts them in the dump truck.
- I worked on the autonomous code. It now goes forward until it sees white and then continues forward for a set number of rotations then makes a left turn. The big improvements are that we can now read the color sensor and that the turn functions work.
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