Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Yesterday I went to robotics. As we had finished the robot, we did the programming. When we reached there, the students were still fixing their robot. Our instructor Mr Wee asked a boy to teach us how to program. His name is Kai Xing. He is secondary 3 or 4 I can't remember. Some of his friends called him happy because in Chinese his name was happy. He taught me how to program. He taught as if he was an expert.

Now I know how to program the robot. First you must put in the start and end sign. We programed the robot to start the engines first then we programed it to turn as we need to make the robot turn in the competition next week lastly we set the rotation sensors to program the robot to stop after 500 turns. The maximum is 2000-3000.

After we had finished programming, we tested our robot and it did not work well because instead of moving in front, it moved sideways. Kai Xing suspect that the light sensors were not working well so he programmed the light sensors to shine 48%. But it still did not work. We tried lots of times but it did not work so another secondery 1 boy helped us do. But in the end he got mixed up. When it was time to leave, our robot was still not working. So we had to do it next time anyway we had a whale of time.

posted by Yew Weng at 11:36 AM

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