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Blog Assignment #2 (due Tuesday 1/22)
Summarize your experience thus far with creating programs that enable your robot to travel 4 meters in a straight line. Was it hard or easy? What challenges/obstacles did you encounter? What have you learned about the variables that you have changed thus far (power, duration amount, duration type, direction, etc…)? What variable determines how far the robot will travel? What variable determines how fast the robot will travel?
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5 Responses to “Blog Assignment #2 (due Tuesday 1/22)”
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cbblovett15 Says:
January 15th, 2009 at 6:00 pmIt has been extremely difficult so far because our team can’t find out why our robot isn’t going in a straight line. We’ve only changed the duration amount and we got really close to going 4 meters long. The variable that determines how far the robot will travel is the duration amount and the variable that determines how fast the robot will travel is the power.
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wrplovett15 Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 4:26 pmIt has been difficult with changing everything like duration and speed but after a while you get the hang of it. We try to make it turn 90 degrees and make it go into a full circle. We made the 4 meters on our 4th try so that didn’t take so long and the 90 degree angle in 2 tries but were a little stuck on the circle so it is kinda difficult if we make the duration decrease it changed by a big amount and we can’t see how to get it perfect. It is really fun working with the robots like the sensers.We have to change power sometimes because it has to much and something goes wrong. It is very cool how you can change the direction on a laptop I thought it would be more difficult. I love this new and interesting experiment.
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tlblovett15 Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 9:04 amYour robot might not be going in a straight line because of its wheel, try taking it apart and rebuilding it
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jcrlovett15 Says:
February 9th, 2009 at 9:48 amAfter going through the four meters we finaly found out how to turn and change the speed. Changing the duration of the speed we didn’t have enough time. So we had to change the time of the robot. Then… we had to learn how to turn. this was very difficult, because we couldn’t figure out how to change the turning. Then after all of the figuring out of the turning, and the speed, we completed the circle.
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jcrlovett15 Says:
February 9th, 2009 at 10:13 amI have had the same problems as everybody else, changing the speed, and the time. Taking forever we finaly got the 4 meters becuse we change the duration of the speed not the time.