Selected Robolab Web Journal Entries for 2005
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camalex
Tuesday 12 July; 2005 at 12:13
We have sucsessfuly made three or so programs but we are still trying to program our robo-cop design.we are understanding the robot more and more today.We installed a color sensor on the front.
bobgo
Tuesday 12 July; 2005 at 2:41
We finished police cruisermade 4wheel drive gear system and created a humongous tank of deathfinished program after much work we learned how to make forks
camalex
Wednesday 13 July; 2005 at 12:27
Today we made alot of progress on looping and jumping;We also completed Robo-cop!!check out the program:
coldav
Wednesday 13 July; 2005 at 2:34
we created a program that worked for our maze crawler car; but the car was to long so we rebuilt our car but the program ndidn't work with it so Collin is now changing the program and useing a random fork.
bobgo
Wednesday 13 July; 2005 at 2:16
Today we started the elevator project with stephnat. Our group is making the elevator; stephnat is making the vehicle to go up the elevator. The programs use touch sensors. When the vehicle touches the touch sensor motors go up for a certain amount of time (not yet determined). When the touch sensor is not touched the elevator does not move.
mikkevmi
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 11:55
i actually went to the tatorials and learned about programing and we finished the first challane that we atempted and we are now starting the venus fly catcher and we are goig to acomplkish a big amount next week also.
camalex
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 11:59
Hi; Today we made our MAZE program. (as you can see below) It took us a while but it was worth it because we are the first people to start on the maze. Oh yeah by the way; we have an adddition to out team. His name is Kev. He helped os out today with building our robot. C ya tomorrow!!! Cam; Alex; and Kev
jarjas
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 12:03
today we did finish the fly trap by the program below we started working on the maze crawler and were almost done we have the car built but we just need a light sensor to follow a black line but also have to use touch sencor
mated
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 12:01
Todoy we are working on catapult. This is our program..jpg)
allat
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 12:55
Note: For the 13that: today I learned that to repeat the program; you need jumps. Also; you need every thing neccesary for a progam to work.all:Today we re-designed our robot to atempt the maze; but unfortunatly it is not successful yet.
stephnat
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 2:38
today stephnat is working with bobgo to do the gradge thing. and i redid the virus code! check it out!!!!!!!! its great.......it has many uses! well anyway bobgo has a unreal elevator.....its SCARY so ya.....
allat
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 2:47
All- Today we worked on our programing but the robot kept breaking down and dieing.at: our robot works fine; but it likesto turn the wrong directioncode is ify
brangab
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 2:48
Today I was short handed beacause Gabe was not here. So I had to re-creat the program by myself. Thats because the first one disapeard.
foreri
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 2:48
Todaywe successfully completed the wall crawler. Hopfully that on Monday we will complete the maze..jpg)
allat
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 2:53
All- Today we worked on our programing but the robot kept breaking down and dieing.at: our robot works fine; but it likes to turn the wrong directioncode is ifyearlier image is incorrect
coldav
Thursday 14 July; 2005 at 2:49
After six notable attemps at a successful maze crawler program; we finally found one that worked. We also tried to work the light sensor; but it failed; and was taken out of the program. On Monday we will use different light sensor program to have the bot follow the black line through the maze.
mated
Monday 18 July; 2005 at 11:24
Today we worked on catapult and we did it! Weare also going to do sumo today. This is our catapult program.
jarjas
Monday 18 July; 2005 at 11:30
our maze crawler it is just about done just have to get it to follow the blackk line with a light sencor and some touch sencors to get away from the walls and get to the other end of the track
mikkevmi
Monday 18 July; 2005 at 12:18
to tell you the truth; I'm not really all that sure of what we accomplished today. I think that we are just plain confused. For whatever reason ; my brand new design is «da shiznit» at sumo. I didn't even program it do do more than go forward!
brangab
Monday 18 July; 2005 at 2:51
today; we think we finally got the right program for the maze. hooray!!! nobody thought of our «random motor» idea. maybe you can show our program picture to the class..jpg)
camalex
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 12:15
Today we learned how to send mail. WE were the first people to make the program but the others took pictures of it!!!!!! :-( Oh well; But anyway we looked up on how to write the programs for the mail. We also re-did our robot. We added a reflector; new wheels; and of course a new evil program. WA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!. Tomorrow we will probably sumo someone. We dont know what we shal do after the sumo but we have not done all the challenges so we will have many choices. See you tomorrow!!!! Cam; Alex; and Kev ^ (Our virus maker)
mikkevmi
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 12:18
WHOA!mr jones printed out a version of the virus program for me today. I then made it my own (the version you see below)by changing the music it played and various other things. Hopefully; the program will cause other robots to stop moving! It is ingenious!!! And by the way; we stared constuction of a walker. whoo hoo!
jarjas
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 12:17
today made a obtactle car with a virus protector jarrod discovered and I found away to turn off a car but this computer won't let me put it hear but i'll make sure it works and towmarrow I'll put it on but hears our program to do the obtical
foreri
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 2:16
This is the most complicated solution that I have seen to the maze. This is only worth 30 points too! It uses containers to keep turning left; then right while backing out each time. It also uses random time to decide how long to turn. This is our solution to the maze!!
bobgo
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 2:40
Today I took a test.It was programing test 1. I got a 75. Bob took a test. It was on gears. We finished obstacles level 1. We had two light sensors. Motor C stopped which made it turn and push all the cans out.
stephnat
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 2:41
im mad.....you know why im mad u ask...because i failed to make a anti-mail program....I tried everything but nothing works!! why not!!!!!!!! well anyway my bro is makin a iron man song with the propgram thing..well if i do make it im not showing u the program >:( ......or well I?
allat
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 2:37
Ally- Today we started the Obstacles Challange but we had technical difficulties and replaced our batteries. I am not so sure that was a problem but we still had to download firmware again and all the computers that we tried on did a horrible job downloading. Tommorow I hope will be more productive.at- today we started a new challenge.we have a good program;but the batteries went and we had problems with the firmware(problems meaning the firmware doesn't like to load); and the robot needs altering.
brangab
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 2:45
Today our robot made it through the maze.But when the jugde watch it got stuke in the corner. I tried a test but the code failed.
coldav
Tuesday 19 July; 2005 at 2:49
Today our group started to make our car for the challenge «line touch freeform». We thought that our car could do a jump if we had a third engine but we were unable to do it because the morning class took the two spare engines. Then our car would not turn but we soon found out that it was because front wheels don't make the car able to turn. We replaced the front wheels with the round black peice; but the weight was still too great. Tomorow we will try the zoobot and see if it will work better.
mated
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 12:16
we started somo with a light sensor now when it sees black zip it will muenuver and dodge eaisily
mikkevmi
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 12:17
today we did a lot; but not a whole lot of it was very useful to our progress. on a lighter note; we finished our walker; but even that doesn't work! hopefully; we can fix our problems by tommorow. Also; mike made his fist program; which unfortunately we have no copy of (computer problems)
jarjas
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 12:23
the program below is are strategy for sumo by virusing our opponate first we make our opponate spin out of contral then we shut them off then our robot goes forward to make the kill tody we learned how to make a working shut off virus and to stop viruses
mikkevmi
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 12:25
hi im mike i made my first program today and it was able to work succssfully and we also figured out how to make a walker and that was also succssesful and we atre now going to complete the maze crawler this is my succsessful
foreri
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 2:36
Forrest is doing this journel. Today I studied for the gears test and of course I aced it; while Eric programmed the robot. We went through another two of the obsticale course levels and got full credit on them. the robot I designed; and Eric helped too; was meant to make a noise if it hit the can; sometimes the plow fell off or the sensor was to high. Evevtually; my group built the robot and it succesfully made a noise when it touched a can AND pushed out all the cans. tommorow; I hope to do at least one more level of the obsticale course.
bobgo
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 2:42
today the only thing that was completed was a test i recieved a 88. That was on the first try! We continuosly tried to do level 2 on the Obstacles. We are usure of what is wrong.It spins and destroys anything in its path. It would be good for summo. We may do that next. I finally got iron man onto the bot;i had to use the load a saved scroll thingey and when i was running the program it asked me to select the song i made in the piano program thing
coldav
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 2:44
today our group remade our car and used a rotation sensor to make sure it turned the 90 degrees we needed it to. then collin's program didn't function the right way. we figured out that the lightsensor didn't see black as soon as it started so it would go straight forever; we soon added a jump and land after the light sensor fork and a fork merge.we are about to test our line touch freeform car.
allat
Wednesday 20 July; 2005 at 2:44
Ally- today i believe we made significant progress our robot does not fall apart «quite» as easily and we are almost on our way to complete the first level of the obstacle challenge. I hope we complete our second challenge tommorow if we are lucky.at-We have nearly completed the obstacle challenge. We just need it to go a lot slower with less time.We changed our robot so it didn't break into fifty pieces. It also had two light sensors before;and that messed it up because it sensed the middle lines.
djones
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 11:11
Possible anti-virus solution: shuts off offending robot.Problem: it shuts off ANY robot within range.
djones
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 11:19
Anti-virus program: This works!!
djones
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 11:30
This was an attempt to send out a virus while blocking myself from one. It does not work because the way the antivirus works is by blocking any communication; so the antivirus I wrote prevents me from sending one.
jarjas
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 12:03
togay me and jarrod made three programs for tug of war by just haveing our motors go backwards in sumo we have our motors go back and forth by switching our from frward then backward and wqe did maze crawler were we have flashing lights and haveing our light sencor follow a black line
camalex
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 12:15
Today we struggled on the new challenge......TUG OF WAR. Although it was hard; we finally got the program to get into our robot and work. We battled 1 team today. We tied because it was a stalemate. We really didnt accomplish much but we learned a good lesson in programming! (Mr. Jones showed most of it to us)Cam also made progress on the walker but we need another motor; he is making a modified version of a robot from the book.
mated
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 12:27
This time we are doing a new challange and we kick butt! Our robot; for some reson; is REALY strong and we can not figure out why.We think its the design. Do you?
mikkevmi
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 12:32
today was total crap. nothing seemed to work! our program and our robot are both severely flawed and we DON»T KNOW WHY!!! Anyway; I hope we can fix it. here is the program
bobgo
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 2:38
today we finally finished level 2 on the obstacles. We had to take our program apart peice by peice. We had to debug it. We are now doing summo. We are using the a similar program. It spins around rapidly so that everthing in its path is destroyed or pushed aside. It is like a hurricane or tornadoe! The robot for obstacles was to big so Bob reduced the size; but it is still going to win. The robot is well put together so it will be hard to take apart.
stephnat
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 2:37
Today steve tried to make the program for carapultbut the light couldnt see the dark and it wouldent stop and fling the little lego mon. We gave up the catapult and started sumo. We are going to keep the peices so when we go back to it we wont have to go looking around for all the peices.
allat
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 2:50
Ally- Today was extremely promising we finished the first; second and third of the obstacle challenge levels. At first it was difficult finding our faults and it didn't help with Mr. Jones telling us how weak our design was. We found with adding a bumper and adjusting power levels we were successful. Also every time we attempted a new level all we had to do was to adjust our program by a small margin to solve the next level.at- Today we did levels one through three in the obstacle course.Our main problem was timing. We had it trying to kill us.We also had a blind spot in the middle of the circle so we added a side bumper.
brangab
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 2:45
Today Gabe was not hear again for the second Thursday in a row. I created a program that made it through the maze finally. I made it work by using containers. First if the container was same or less than 0 it would go right and add 1 then when it hit a wall it would go left and subtract 1 making it go right next wall it hit.
coldav
Thursday 21 July; 2005 at 2:51
today collin was not here but I started to change our program of the line touch free form car. one thing I changed was instead of the last thing being a beap; it is mailing a song to the spare RCX. I also made th car push an object instead of the speed change. it was hard with out colllin; him being our programmer.
jarjas
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 12:30
tody we made a claw that grabs cans and brings them back to the safe by going foward and when it gets hit by the can in the claw it will close when the touch sencor is hit and will revese until it gets back to safe then change directions and repeat the process
camalex
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 12:23
Today we made our walker. Although it moves; it has trouble with balance. We didnt finish any challenges today; but we hope to tomorrow. Kevin wasn't here today; but we managed. I (Alex) started making new programs for another challenge. It looks pretty easy and its worth 100 points!!!! Well; we will see you tomorrow!!Cam; and Alex
mikkevmi
Tuesday 25 October; 2005 at 12:27
today we finshed the walker and we were the first to finsh it and no one can ever take that away not even the goverment.the walkers name was emperial.acually all are bots names are now emperial.after westarted the begginer program and we finshed two out of six and it feels like a party in my mind.tomarow we are going to finsh begginer program. today me ;kevin; worked on my enginarin skills. and improved. so peace out my homes and allways look on the bright side of life do do do dodododo do do do.and...... ..dadaddadadadadadadadadadadaad BATMAAAAN
foreri
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 2:55
Today my group is doing the other ''can moving'' challenge which is worth more points and easier to do. I did the robolab error test and got a one hundred on it. We also got more points on the wall follower. The program Eric is making is VERY complex but does not quite work out just yet. tommorow I hope that we finish the challenge.
bobgo
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 2:48
Today we worked on our summo robot. Brangab faced it was a tie. We had several practices just for fun we beat coldav once and beat brangab twice. Our robot has more torque so we have are robots go forward.
stephnat
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 2:48
Today we worked at SUMO!!!!!!!!!! It was cool tomrrow we will battle and conqer bobgo. I have been practising my programming and im doing pretty good.
coldav
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 2:52
today our group finished the line touch freeform and started to make the sumo bot with a virus but soon learned that a virus doesn't work well; brutt force is the way to go.
allat
Monday 25 July; 2005 at 2:56
Ally- Today was successful even though we spent almost the full two hours on Level 4 of the Obstacle Removal Challenge. We completed Level 4 and hope two finish level 5 tommorow or the next day after. I hope we complete level 5 before presentation night. On an even better note I got 91.67% on a knowledge test while Keith fixed the blind spot on the robot.At- Today we did the obstacle removal level four.It seems easy but we had a blind spot and VARYING weigths.We kept rebuilding it and changing speeds.
jarjas
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 12:07
Problem: we had to figure out how to make the claw close on our robot to grip the can so jarrod is working on fixing it up so that it closes when the touch sencor gets hit Solution: Jarrod worked on the program and also extended so that it will only close once just around the can and bring it back to the safe and also the same to the other to lines Problem: while jarrod was working on that i was taking test Solution:to get good grades i first studied then i got a 91.67 on one test then got a 100.00% on the other!!!
camkev
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 12:08
Problem: Our walker at the start of the day was not working properly so we SMASHED IT TO LITTLE BITS AND BROUGHT IT A WORLD OF HURT!!Solution: so basicaly we tore it apart and built a new one Problem: I (Kevin) was going to do a test for som points. However i hit the worng button and it whent bye bye.Solution:I just took another one.Problem: one group only had one person.Solution:So we had to let Alex go that trator GRRRRR Silly rabbit trix are for kids!
ryeale
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 12:10
Problem: Our problem today was that our bot could not make it through the maze. I t would not turn efficiently. Solution: We re-built the bot but it still didnt work.The robot would still not turn. We ended u just putting the maze challenge aside.Problem: Our robot would not do robot challenge 1. The robot kept trying to go through the wall instead of stopping when it hit the wall.Solution: To solve this problem I put in a touch sensor fork. Problem: I only had one person on my team. My partner had been missing for a week in half.Solution:To make it easier Alex joined my team now we're moving along fast again.
mikkevmi
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 12:10
Problem: our problem today was that we were trying to complete the brand new:BEGINNERS CHALLENGE!!!Solution: we used a couple of different programs; most of them worked on the first try; which is pretty lucky; considering programs we wrote. Here is an example of our program for challenge #6 fhgwads
mated
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 12:20
Problem: Today we worked on #3 on the beginers challange and our robot met a problem. It won't go back and forth.Solution: We think it was the program.
bobgo
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 2:46
Problem: Trying to find a partner for Summo (nobody wanted to verse The SnowPlow of ULTIMATE UBERNESS!!!)Solution: Mr Jones told somebody to play with usProblem: Trying to do something while waiting for somebody to summo.Solution:We worked on the beginner's challenges... AND WON!!Problem: Trying to find somebody to tug o war partner. Solution:Steve and Nathan tugged with us!!!WE GOT A LOT OF POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cause we are coo!!!!!
foreri
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 2:46
Problem: One porblem was that the cans would not get in the claws.Solution: Simple; Mket the claws widerProblem: Another problem was the very close light sensor readings. The robot could not tell green from black.Solution:I put the light sensor close to the ground and the numbers of the colors were more unique and there was a difference between black and green.Problem: The claws kept breading off the robot.Solution:Support was put on the claws to the body of the robot.
brangab
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 2:50
Problem: we tried to make a tank; but the wires keep on getting caught. any suggestions? we really need help on this.Solution: Problem: lol; sumo; big problem; we made a virus; but the virus stopped our bot too. any help?Solution:
stephnat
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 2:31
Problem: OUR SUMO DOSENT HAVE ENOUGH TOURQE.Solution: We put more gears on itProblem: Our robot was still not strong enoughSolution:We tried to make it even stronger but it still didnt work.
coldav
Tuesday 26 July; 2005 at 2:54
Problem: Our Sumobot refuses to kick anyones butt; because it was too weak.Solution: We added more torque using gears but the best thing that we managed from this was a tie.Problem: The Sumobot's program was faulty.Solution:We fixed the bugs and tweaked our original settings.
djones
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 11:35
Current Challenge: Intermediate Challenge 1Problem: Timer fork wouldn't work...Solution: Timer forks need to be initialized using zero timer and need to be included in a loop to continually monitor.
djones
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 11:36
Current Challenge: Timer fork lessonProblem: Solution: Here's how a timer fork is used.
djones
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 11:46
Current Challenge: Timer LoopProblem: Solution: Here's how to use a timer loop...
jarjas
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 12:05
Current Challenge: Problem: today jarrod made a different robot to get the cans his problem was that the boon was to heavy for the moter so he has to make abetter pragram and figure this outSolution: he programed a better program in the RCX by useing moree power but it is still not fully funtionalProblem: I made a couple of programs for the begginers challenge and also helped jarrod with his problemSolution:with me jarrod useing the other moter so I'll finish it ethor later today or towmarrow
ryeale
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 12:08
Current Challenge: Problem: We had a problem with our timer fork. it kept setting back to zero.Solution: We solved it by putting the jump loop after the (set container back to zero) symbol. Then our problems were solved..jpg)
mikkevmi
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 12:15
Current Challenge: obsticales and a walker for show caseProblem: in obsticals the turn radis was to great and it kept run out of the arenaSolution: i slowed down the time on the turn to.3 and the ligth senser at 40 it workedProblem: no walker will workSolution:we might be close
brangab
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 2:38
Current Challenge: Problem: like; black line thing nmot working; cuz; like; its being stupid. lol.lmao.Solution: attempted:like; making like; it; like; stop b4 the light sensor thing. lol.lol. i stink at programming. and i odn't have hearing aids!!!!!
foreri
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 2:38
Current Challenge: Finishing the last challenges in the beginners challenge.Problem: The claws on the last level of the intermideate level were moving to fast and breaking off.Solution: makeing the motors go slower.Problem: One of the claws did not work on the last intermidete level.Solution:Switch the wires and power it up more.Problem: The robot when diriving staightly; turned to the left a little.Solution:The wires were on the axels and needed to be moved.We will get major points today; YEAH!
coldav
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 2:37
Current Challenge: beginners challengeProblem: wheels wouldn't turnSolution: changed the touch sensor fork mistake that we madeProblem: one front wheel wouldn't turnSolution:took off an extra gear
bobgo
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 2:47
Current Challenge: The Intermediate ChallengeProblem: Unsure how to use timer forkSolution: Studied Mr. Jones Web Journal and took parts of it on my program.Problem: In tug o war we had a disagreement because we had the wrong program on. Solution:We had a vote. We won with 7 votes. We came to a compromise. Both teams recieved 100 points.We did ok today
brangab
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 2:40
Current Challenge: Beginers challangeProblem: We are in the last place.Solution: We are working hard at test and challanges. Problem: We are having trouble with the light senser.Solution:We are working on a new program.Problem: Our robot fell of the desk three times. Solution:I re built the robot ever time it fellWe wont be in last for long
allat
Wednesday 27 July; 2005 at 2:47
Current Challenge: beginers challangeProblem: Motors kept stopping.Solution: Put a wire from the touch sensor fork(top)to the fork mergeProblem: motors didn't stopSolution: don't use loops.
ryeale
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 11:02
Current Challenge: Problem: My problem was I had to write aprogram for itermidiate challenge four.Solution: My solution was I sat down and wrote the program below in only 10 minutes.
mikkevmi
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 11:54
Current Challenge: inter challnge catiopultProblem: we tryed to make the robot trow an objectSolution: i;t worked it went forword stoped thyen trougthProblem: still in the processSolution:
camkev
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 11:54
Current Challenge: beginer chalengeProblem: the motors were not working right in the loop i put it in.Solution: do not put the motors in the thing with the thoch sensor fork
jarjas
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 12:02
Current Challenge: nuclear waste; and bigginers challenges Problem: jarrod still has to figure out the program but he's smart so he'll probly prevalSolution: don't eally have one except we are going to work really hard on the program to make our machine sweep the cans to safteyProblem: my problem was there were not enough peices to do the begginers challenges Solution:but i did get to do some things by asking another group «mikkevmi» for another moter and I got them done well not all of the them but 4 i think
foreri
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 2:46
Current Challenge: FINISHEDProblem: The problem today was the car would not park today.Solution: Nothing seemed to work. We gave up.
coldav
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 2:47
Current Challenge: Venus Fly TrapProblem: The Venus Flytrap Robot was tearing itself apart.Solution: We secured it with lego parts and slowed down our program.
foreri
Thursday 28 July; 2005 at 2:48
Current Challenge: Problem: I do have some suggestions for next year...1. Make more harder callenges for the people who catch on quicker.2. Get more rotation sensors.3. Search everyone before they leave to see if they take anything with them.4. Get more tests.Great job Mr. Jones.FarewellForrest & EricSolution: