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Members: Timber, Camacho, Nate, Tyler

first lecture, talked about a lot of stuff, didnt understand most of it, it be like that sometimes

we showed up for lecture but there was none.
decided that our nuc would be vertical in order to save room for our ball collection and redistribution mechanisms.

4:30AM: watched a very long video about open CV and YOLOv4, just have to learn how to train it to see Balls and Walls 😏😏
- made a program that takes webcam input and uses YOLO to identify things.
1:30PM: Sat in lecture hall for an hour after lecture and got some 'za as a team.
Lab: robot finally moved, however, it ran away then proceeded to only moved in circles, so we gave him a dunce cap for being a silly goose.
after adding some wheel marker to track their speed, we deduced that one motor is wired backwards and they are backwards, i.e. left is right and vice versa.
- it does actually move and turn 4 times in a row, however, the turn is not 90º.

R 🤡B 🤡T has finally got his top plate! we also got a battery, finally feels like our team is not behind, lol.
Glued the kill-switch to the side of the bot so it is easily accessible.
From my very poor understanding heres how our code will work:
- camera (node) > camera data (topic) > object detection (node)
- object detection (node) > ball position (topic) > driving code (node)
- encoder (node) > encoder data (topic) > driving code (node)
- driving code (node) > motor commands (topic) > motors (node)

After many days, finally taught my computer how to see balls, however, i now realized, after talking to a class mate, that color segmentation would have been quicker, easier, and likely more accurate.

Got our **** together, everyone went to lab for the first time since the first week, showed up at 10 am and worked until 5
Designed a system to pick up balls by using two foam rollers with rubber bands for traction
Redesigned and recut the side bracket for the foam rollers at least 6 times

grind continues
10am - 2am, sigma grindset dont stop
rollers work, thats insane, first thing that actually works
camera still doesnt work, gotta balance stuff out
motor broken
motor fixed
motor broken
different motor broken
Timber learned how to juggle https://vimeo.com/user164930961/review/671002385/1780cd7d6b
11:51PM at simmons now

our roller doesnt work, sigma grindset doesnt stop.
we are meticulpously checking our code to make sure ball detecion and drive ode worjk together to ollect balls, but our ball detection isnt working exactly as expected.