Team Ten/Journal
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Day 1: Jan 9 2012
We assembled the pegbot and got it to run. The wheels spun in opposite directions because we didn't think about polarity hard enough. We also found that the installation of IDLE on the eeePC was kind of screwy for some reason.
Day 2: Jan 10 2012
We spent a lot of time getting the IR sensor to work. There seems to be a software issue that makes sending/receiving commands from the arduino really slow. Changing the timeout variable in arduino.py from 1 to 2 helped, sort of. Daivon and Veronica started CADding parts, and we thought about how to build a ball shooter.
Also, we've noticed that the wheels rotate at dramatically different speeds even though they're receiving the same motor value command. Still need to figure that out.
Day 3: Jan 11 2012
Eben made a discovery! The caster was causing our pegbot to drive unpredictably. We are are planning on using two omni-wheels instead of a caster. We need to prototype our ball-shooting mechanism so we can get to work on the real thing.
Day 4: Jan 12 2012
We realized that pygame is easier to use than opencv. Also we decided to put a skirt on the robot.
