Feb 8, 2014 Competition at Robotics Society of Southern California (RSSC)

   Congratulations to the Winners of the Robotics Competition

    CSU Long Beach, California

Special Feature: Nine years old Katie Mason's Robot

Katie is amazing, she wrote her own program for the robot



Very well written program, moves nicely, and it was the only robot controlled from a laptop

Feb 8, 2014 Ambitious Robot BlastOff

Feb 8, 2014 Competition at  Robotics Society of Southern California (RSSC)

Engineering & Computer Science Building, California State University Long Beach



Carlos and I saw many nice robots at the competition. Although we didn't win the race, we learned from being part of the group and this is our conclusion:

• We have built a solid robot
• Line Sensor worked well 
• Flame sensor needs improvement
• Programming was challenging but showed improvement
• Our robot drove in the maze
• We worked well together as a team to build our Robot and learned from each other.

Friday Feb 7, Extra Day for Final Checking and Testing

 

Day 15: Preparing for Launching

 

   We installed the fan shown here, but it was later changed to a more
   powerful one in the 3rd video shown below.

 

Still a lot to do to test the code, but all in all we have made improvement
and it has been a great learning experience.

Day 14: Mission Control Center

Meet our mission control chief engineer at work. There is a lot of programming and troubleshooting

 

 

Day 13: Programming Troubleshooting and Testing

Troubleshooting code with Professor Mason

Mr Davis has been a great helper for the students

Day 12: Mini-challenge and Ultrasonic Rangefinder

  

Completed mini challenge assignment

Our robot has both flame and line sensors installed. We need to write two functions: one is for our robot to drive forward and stop over a black line on the floor. At this point, the second function is for our robot to rotate until it sees the flame then drive forward and stop over the black circle infront of the flame.

We have very organized lab exercises. We are approaching our problems step by step, we learn well by hand on practices, edit our code and see how the robot react to the program under our very eyes.
 

Ultrasonic Rangefinder

We had installed the Ultrasonic Rangefinder on our Robot so that it can detect objects and avoid hitting them. It would be nice if we could have the same capability for our vehicles.