Lego Team Meeting: September 6th, 2013

In this meeting, we had to accomplish 2 things:

1. We had to program the robot to sense a back line and come back (Samarth, Srikar, Shaun, etc.)
2. We had to build a moderately strong chassis with the EV3 for testing on the Robot Game Board (Mukund and Shane)

Building the chassis was fairly easy because of a new part in the EV3. It looks like a square with a bunch of holes in various locations for the pins. We were able to connect both motors perfectly placed 1  

stud apart. After that we added plenty of exterior and interior supports and braces to make sure that, in the occasion the EV3 got stepped on, dropped or tripped over, it would suffer no major damage except  

for a couple of loose pins. After placing the brick, we put on the wheels (with much difficulty).

For programming Srikar, Shaun and Samarth created a program that worked in theory, but malfunctioned due to the distance between the floor and the color sensors. The NXT brick might have been switched with the older version, and compatibility may have been a problem.

To wrap up the meeting, coach showed the team the stuck on parts and pieces on the lard, complete after 3 meetings worth of preperation and building. For next meeting, remember to bring a lot of research in on wildfires.

Thanks, and Go Brickbusters!!!

Shane Puthuparambil