Our Team doesn’t have a robot yet so I haven’t really started writeing our program. I have made small programs that I will later add into the final product. I have finished line tracking, search and distroy and am working on Dead Reconing, but it hard to do without a Robot.
All sounds good people. How is the line following coming along? Is anyone able to follow the line at full speed?
We don’t have sensor line tracking yet, but we have the basic bot done, with optional sound system and underglow assemblies for our upcoming kikin show.
Well…we’ve basically finished the program for our robot. Now if our construction team can finish a box with 4 wheels for us to test the code.
WE are doing well although we are in programming hell…
Not only do we have the stamp to deal with, but we went with imfrared, ultrasonic and home brewed LED bars for line following…
This led to a microcontroller talking to the STAMP…so we then got an ICE and are now in electronics hell…
But we’ll be able to know where we are and seek and destroy boxes…line follow or wall follow… we even might be able to count squares on the ramp to know where the top is…
We also designed it so that we could have a predetermined set of autonomous actions depending on the other team strategy and our partner…
ooh well…:yikes:
*Originally posted by Adam Collet *
**FYI all, ameya was kidding. Anybody know anything about quantum computers? Keep on dreaming ameya.
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Not sure if this was a rhetorical question… but yes I know something of quantum computers… Quite a bit really. It’s been a research project I’ve been a part of at the University of Michigan. It’s been a challenge, as our group if looking at computing methods, while un-related, the physics department has come up with some super-cooled laser trapping experiments that we’ve found have great value… and the crowd is a sleep… I get that a lot…
But you’ve given me a great idea… I should think about applying my research ideas to the robot… hmm… this could be interesting. 
Just to let you know… Quantum Computing is not just about building quantum processors, it’s a new mindset about computing in general, of which, a lot of ideas can be applied to “modern” computers. IMHO Quantum computers may be the way of the future, but they are a ways off, clock-less technology is where we need to go…
And luck, I’m no where near topic of this thread… sorry
Well, my wisdom teeth are coming out tomorrow, and i have regents week off (regents == NY test stuff), so I have decided on a little project. I will be writing a c++ app that writes dead reckoning code. Click on the screen a few times to give it way points, and it will (hopefully) write the code for it. If i get really into it, it may support more than just skid (4 wheel) steering. It may support crab or what ever other crazy contraptions you think of. now if i can just remember my good old trig identities…
Some of our SparkE’s are working on a “learn mode” in which a human operator drives the robot for 15 seconds, and the program records motor run times. Coupled with a few sensor “check points” this will allow us to create all kinds of fun autonomous programs.
Haha, my favorite part is that the autonomous program would actually be a human driver, not necessarily from the high school. Who knows, you might get to see me “driving” the bot for 15 seconds one match. 
Autonomous mode? You mean thats not in the default program? Crap I knew we we’re forgetting something…
*Originally posted by Ameya *
**We have designed and implemented a fully-functioning, 32000-qubit Feynmann processor that analyzes all of the possible outcomes of the match simultaneously and determines what action to take based on the current field state. Still a few bugs to work out, but it’s coming along… **
bleh thats nothing, we have a fully functioning klignon bird of prey thats going to be cloaked right over the field, no need for autonmous mode, all the other robots will be blown to bits!!!
ohh yeah we got a little teleporter working on our robot so BEWARE!
muhahahahaha, but it doesnt work onliving things, we tried to teleport our one of the programmers across the room and it didnt turn out so well!
My team’s co-captain gave me a pretty big challenge of making the robot fly. So far, this is what I’ve got:
fly = true
nofly = false
The fly = true statement is self explanatory, but as I explained to him, in the event the mech kids screw up, the nofly = false will keep it from falling out of the sky.
Being a mech kid himself, he didn’t find that very amusing.
started programming it… but got bored and got into the design of the bot more than the program…
have the suspicion this will be yet another thing whipped together half hour before shipping… yet will still amaze everyone
~Pyro
*Originally posted by Tempest *
**bleh thats nothing, we have a fully functioning klignon bird of prey thats going to be cloaked right over the field, no need for autonmous mode, all the other robots will be blown to bits!!!
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Klingon Bird of Prey?? Get serious 
Klingon Bird of Prey? Hahaha! And you, Ameya, with your puny Earth computers? Our team has built the Sun Crusher, a miniature and more powerful version of the Death Star. It doesn’t need to cloak, it will fly around and ensnare whole stacks with the tractor beam. Oh yeah, I have Han Solo piloting it, by the way.