Attendance:

Alex, Zach, Drew, Danielle, Charles

Goals:  

Builders

• Create and attach a prototype of an arm mechanism to knock over the jewels in autonomous mode

Programmers

• Create an early prototype of the autonomous program

Meeting Notes

Programmers

• Reviewed example code, copied all needed code on to the prototype program
• Finished and tested the program
• Charles’s Code
  • Robot went in the opposite direction
  • Researched the ticks, a measurement of gear rotation, in one rotation of the gear and found that the correct number was 1680 and not 420
  • Substituted the new value in the code
  • Retested robot and it travelled the correct distance
  • Added a feature where the linear lift would go up to avoid field damage upon leaving the balance board
  • Added a feature where the claw would go down after
• Alex’s Code
  • Linear lift would not go up
  • Re-downloaded the program and the program worked

Builders

• Began building an arm to knock over jewel based on four criteria
  • Lift must go up and down
  • Must support a color sensor
  • Must be long enough to knock over the jewel
  • Must be attached to robot
• Met all the above criteria except for attaching it, which is partway done