Gap Following Competition 4/18/11

         Today we did our line follow challenge with gaps in the line. We were very proud of the fact that we actually got our robot to work and successfully completed the challenge. I think it was very helpful that my group all met up together outside of class for this challenge and worked well together on figuring out how to get the program to work. We are really starting to work well as a group and get things done efficiently.

         We are now starting the catapult challenge and are pretty excited because we came up with a unique way to kick the ball instead of throwing it. We are hoping that we can do very well on this last challenge and make up for the problems that we have had with two of the other ones.

          The hard part of this last challenge is to figure out if it will be better to throw the ball further or shorter, since we don't want it to take a really long time to find the ball. Also it has to be close enough to actually be able to use the sensor to determine where the ball is and be able to go to it and find it. We are going to test out a few different ways and see what will work best for the challenge.