Team Update: May 28, 2009

Here is a review of what we did this week in robotics.

Tuesday:
The orders for the light bulbs were due on Tuesday. Anybody who did not turn one, it is unfortunately too late to turn one in. Mrs. Callow had to get all the order sheets to the company yesterday.

We started to clean the room. Not much progress got done, but some was started.

Towards the end of the night, many students were discussing the pros and cons of going up to Boston in August. Mrs. Danner had talked about going up to Boston because we would be able to tour the iRobot factory. Ally said that there wasn’t much to do in Boston and that she would rather go down to Wildwood. This sparked a long discussion between the students, which meant that not much cleaning was done.

Thursday:
Mrs. Kirk, Mr. Mohrfeld, and Mr. Jerry started to clean up the room. Mr. Hinde, Mr. Don, and Mr. Weick were not happy with any of the students because the accelerometer and gyro were not put on the robot before PARC and still are not on the robot. Sammy and Billy started to research information about the two and to find out how to put the two pieces of electronics onto the robot for our next two off season competitions.

Mikey was learning how to program in Java because next year the robot will be programmed in Java. He was using a program called “Alice” to learn Java. If you have any interest in learning programming for next year, download “Alice” and mess around with it at home. After a few minutes, Billy went over to learn Java as well.

Rachel and Shannon worked on the letter to send out to sponsors. They worked as a pair for most of the night. Every now and then, one of them would stop working on the letter to help clean up some things.

Collin was mostly watching the mentors work on robot tonight, looking up information about PID (Collin, care to share with the team what you learned please?). Whenever somebody wasn’t doing something like working with Java, working on a letter, or researching things, they were either helping Mrs. Kirk sweep up the room or watching the mentors work on the robot.