Day one

From Maslab 2007

When you get to lab, your team should find a place to sit and start looking over the wiki. There are some things on the wiki we did not tell you in lecture! Today is a busy day, so please be patient with the staff and other teams.

Your team should wait to be called to do the following things. Your entire team should come when you are called to:

1. Pick up your kit.
2. Pick up your computer and orc board.
3. Go to the workshop for an introduction and to bend your brackets and put your wheel hubs in.

When you can, you should:

1. Verify that your kit is complete.
2. Solder the OrcPad in your kit (assembly guide) and show it to a staff member to be checked off. We encourage you to take this opportunity to teach team members who do not know how to solder what to do. The staff member will
   • check your soldering,
   • program your OrcPad, and
   • give you the LCD for the OrcPad.
3. Assemble the pegbot: bolt on motors, etc.
4. Write a "hello world" program for your computer (using the Bot Client).
5. Write a "hello world" program for your OrcPad.
6. Program your pegbot to perform a simple task such as driving forward for three seconds and stopping.
7. Show your finished OrcPad hello world and pegbot to a staff member.

Once you have completed these tasks, you are free to leave. However, you are strongly encouraged to stay in lab until it closes, designing your robot and working on your Checkpoint 1. We encourage you to look at the wikis from past years to see what teams have done in the past, and whether those ideas have worked.