Final Robotic Lesson

Today was, unfortuantely, a rather bad day as we were unable to finish constructing our robot in the final lesson available. We did start building our robot but did not come close to finishung it. Above and to the right are pictures of what we hoped to have designed by today.
Although we were unable to complete the task set in building a robot, it has now made me very unterested in Robotics club. These last couple of weeks have really opened my eyes in robotics and it does seem very fun, enjoyable and also addictive.

Pilot 4

This lesson the firsr thing my partner and I did was change a light sensor on Port 2. We then inserted and deleted various steps altering sensors and power levels. We then clicked on the black arrow and turned this arrow the opposite way round. 2 devices were the connected to the NXT block as we did in Pilot 3, and downloaded the program onto the NXT. The program ran and we observed that the light sensor and the lamp were lighting up, whilst both the motors were running. Gripping the touch sensor enables one to stop the motors running and ma king the light on the lamp dim. We then decided to turn the light sensor facing the window and this made it dimmer as well. We then returned to the main menu and are are ready to check over all the work we have done thus far and then hopefully begin Computer Control: Creating A Line Follower.

Absent From The Lesson

This lesson I was absent on the Bilingual French Trip so I had to leave all the work up to my partner this time, unfortunately. He did though manage to successfully Pilot 3. After channging the numerous settings and timersand noting the power levels and changing them, He then connected 2 motorsto Port A and C and a lamp to Port B with the use of an adapter cable. A program was then downloaded which enabled the 2 motors attched to Port A and C to move. Pilot 3 then went on to be successfully completed with Pilot 4 in our sights.

After finishing the Pilot Programming lesson last leson we then beagn Pilot 1. Eventually, after a few failed attempts, we managed to turn on and connect the NXT to a motor via a port. After, we clicked on a motor icon and a few settings were altered. An example of one of these was the turning speed. We then downloaded a program on to the NXT and then checked to see if the changes were successful, thankfully they were. We had then completed Pilot 1 and began Pilot 2. We played around with all the different sensors and symbols and see what affect they would have on the NXT. Pilot 3 is the next thing we aim to complete next lesson as we ran out of time in this lesson.

Attaching Mootors To The NXT Block

After finishing the Pilot Programming lesson last leson we then beagn Pilot 1. Eventually, after a few failed attempts, we managed to turn on and connect the NXT to a motor via a port. After, we clicked on a motor icon and a few settings were altered. An example of one of these was the turning speed. We then downloaded a program on to the NXT and then checked to see if the changes were successful, thankfully they were. We had then completed Pilot 1 and began Pilot 2. We played around with all the different sensors and symbols and see what affect they would have on the NXT. Pilot 3 is the next thing we aim to complete next lesson as we ran out of time in this lesson.

Not So Robo Lesson

It was a rather frustrating lesson as the battery of our NXT block wasn't functioning correctly for the majority of the time. Reloading the firmware was the problem until realized that there was no `Communication Successful` message. At the very end our teacher solved the problem and we were off, for the last ten minutes of the lesson. We did though mange to complete Pilot 1 and Pilot 2 and are eager to get on with Pilot 3.

Overall, it was a frustrating day but we look forward to next lesson, in which we can crack on and really get going on building our robot.

Getting To Know Robotic Features

We answered the question sheet about the video we watched last lesson. On the question sheet it asked for example:

• Where are the motors imported on the NXT block?
• Where are the sensors imported on the NXT block?
• Name the 4 sensors and explain the functions of each of them.
  Before moving on to the next task we handed in the question sheets to our teacher. Unfortunately, we were unable to begin the next task so I look forward to next lesson in which we can commence the new task. Hopefully we can push on quickly so then we will be able to start using our robots around the track, where we can maybe even race eachother.