Team Eleven/Journal
From Maslab 2013
Jan - 7
-Today we made the peg bot. We set up the arduino code to receive command codes from the computer. The command system is setup so that the computer can send a code and parameters over serial to the robot. The supported commands added today were set forward and backwards speed. For checkoff one, we had the computer send varying speed commands that made the robot move back and forth.
-Problems: the right motor is not moving properly. Will check it's setup later
Jan - 8
Today we experimented with the IR sensor, but could not get it to work reliably outside of a 3in range between 3 and 6 inches. Will work on this tomorrow. Temporary limit switches were added to the front of the pegbot for checkoff 2. New commands are now supported by the arduino code, getLimitSwitch info and the ability to set the speed of the left and right motor separately.
