Competition day Saturday Arrived to Cal state Long Beach Engineering Department around 11:30.
- Competition Name: Nathan squared ( partner and I )
- Before competition: fixed turning which was slightly off
- Cued robot to practice the course. It was successful came up a little short in the beginning moving forward. Needed more power to realign itself on the wall.
1:15 competition start.
-reprogrammed initial driving forward to center.
1:30
- Our turn comes up the Nathan squared made an error by coming up short initial drive to center
- Did not finish
Fixes before second try:
- charged battery
- fixed turning a little more
-Unplugged battery
about 2:00
- our second try came the inital forward was fixed but turn was off.
-Did not finish
- IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Competition if you unplug battery run it once or twice to test if it works properly. We plugged in the battery when we went into our second try and it didn't perform correctly.
- After pushing the reset the robot ran correctly ( after turn)
- Our robot was solid, but programming took sometime ( have time anything begin to fail)
- Not relying on encoders; they failed on Friday and had to do timing and wall sensor ( almost rework whole program )
- Making the robot actually finish, then making it go faster
- More time working in the maze
- Another Student came up with the idea of bumpers switches one for each room. Depending on which room the flame was in, push that bumper. Although, would ruin the spirit it was out of the box thinking.
- Being able to use our fan. A fan so powerful the robot began roll backwards.
- Asking for help when something fails: easy way to help solve problems and waste less time.
- Time management: programming and robot
- Being prepared for any mishaps
Final Thoughts
- This is my first time programming and enjoyed the problem solving aspect of the competition. There are things I would change which were previously mention. I enjoyed the experience and turmoil, with that old say "you learn more from your mistakes than from your successes." Elec 10 Winter 2014
-Nathan Salta
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