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January 3rd, 2011

First time writing the date this year, and I (Piper) got it right! W00! Anyway, our team began Maslab in an extremely sleep-deprived state, which made things very amusing. (I was incredibly giggly...) (I am journaling this sleep-deprived. Expect lots of exclamation points and smiley faces!)

Problems we ran into with our code: our "Hello, World!" statement won't print without being in an infinite loop. We're not entirely sure why, but this problem didn't carry over to our Drive class (which we used to get our second component of the checkoff - the robot drove forward for three seconds). This is a good thing, because interrupting the infinite loop didn't work, and we can't make infinity last only three seconds :). After a little debugging, our code successfully drove the robot forward for three seconds and stopped.

With the actual board, we were able to attach our wheels, motors, and castor to our base. We had trouble securing all our wires to the microboard, since the crimping didn't seem to clamp the wires down all the way. We also had to short our emergency stop (due to Maslab adjusting some of the code this year) before our robot could work. But worked it did! And we got a checkoff! And then it broke again! After replacing a fuse and soldering the insides of our battery clips, our attachments were more secure and the robot worked again :).


Things we need to fix tomorrow

[ ] Since one of our motors were initially wired backwards, our ground and power do not follow the standard color convention. We should rewire this.

[ ] Double check to see that when our code decides the robot is moving forward, the robot is moving forward instead of backwards.

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