Today a team member met up with Mr. Marco Janko at 1:30pm to obtain a complete Lego MindStorms kit. The team then met up in the school library a 2pm to further the progress of our engineering design project.
Firstly, we began to build the robot’s body. Unfortunately, the process was halted because there where again, parts missing from the set. We build the robot as much as possible with the pieces we had available.
Secondly, we downloaded the software we will be using to build the robot’s program. For this project we will be writing our code using the RobotC software. Team members familiarized themselves with the RobotC software by following introductory instructions and tutorials. This was particularly helpful to those team members who had none or little code writing experience with computer languages. The team also built and tested simple programs to better understand how the codes affect the robot.
Thirdly, we decided to improve our means of communication. Some team member where having trouble receiving text messages from the group. We decided that to decrease or eliminate the frequency of missed text messages we would download an app that uses internet to send messages instead of cellular networks. We also identified a need for one hub that all team members could axes and edit its content. Therefore, we created a Google Docs file to serve this purpose.
Finally, the team arranged to meet again on Sunday to begin testing programs on the robot and to further its progress.
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