our robot met our expectations and was designed to search 4 rooms and extinguish a candle. it ran off encoders,sonar sensors, and a line sensor.I did all the programming and ivan built the robot and parts for it. it met all expectations except the calibration could have been improved. I enjoyed programming in robotc as it is very user friendly. in all the programming had  6 functions we used in the firefight. It had a flame check function, a drive to black line function, a drive distance function, 2 turn functions, and drive until x distance away from wall function.

hacked toy

cookie monster has been hacked to bow to dark forces of the forsaken as they have promised him to be king of cookie island should he aid them in the destruction of the forces of the alliance. it uses a bi directional motor and LDR to detect the light levels to tell it when to bow to the forces of darkness.A relay helps control the direction of the motor. It stays bowed in the presence of the forsaken darkness and will rise to their absence.

1/21/2014

 the bi directionl motor control set up

the motor control with the single direction set up

1/16/2013

dismantled tickle me cookie monster so i could cut out the micro controller.

1/15/2013

using the LDR to control how two LEDs light up

1/14/2014

 the led setup with transistor to amplify the current from our finger

the square bot built complete and running

the led set up using the arduino to control how they light up

1/09/2014

the relay is set up with a push button to change what light is on.

 the relay set up with a push button and capacitor to give it the blinker effect but the relay thresh hold was too high so it didnt work with the old batterys

the begining of the square bot being built

1/08/2014

LEDs wired with different rated resistors

LED wired with potentiometer to control the brightness

LED Test using breadboard 1/8/14

led connection with a resistor

multimeter reading on 1/8/2014

used the multimeter to measure voltage in batterys and connectivity on the practice solderboard

power source 1/7/14

5volt power source made soldering and rewiring

solder practice2 1/7/2014

practiced soldering wires by alignment and shrink wrapped the solder joints

Solder practice1 1/7/2014

Practiced soldering resistors onto a practice board.