Tuesday 18th February

Tuesday is here which meant once again it was time for the Tech Tuesday quiz. This week was Darren's choice for a video and to create some questions; just before the video began Darren stated that it was quite boring to watch, which we all expected to be honest. Darren defiantly wasn't wrong about the video being boring as the presenter just had the most depressing voice and that had an big effect on my listening skills but I managed to get some notes. Luckily for me those notes were the answers for most of the questions, which in the end got me a score of 7/10/

After this I continued with work which involved getting the images from yesterday which I took of me assembling the robot and sent them to John. I also uploaded my video to YouTube and then sent the link to John.

After I had done that, I cracked on with assignment 1 task 3 of controlling systems unit. I am almost finished and if I get time tomorrow I will finish it off if tomorrow I will do it Thursday.

Monday 17 February

After nearly a straight two week absent I have returned. As I have been away for a while it meant I hadn't been able to finish completely programming my robot, but luckily for me I was almost finished and all I needed to do was get one other sensor to work which was the Ultrasonic sensor. I hadn't any experience with this sensor so I asked Shane for a bit of help. He manage to help me but the only problem was that the robot didn't function too well even though I didn't have any errors so I asked for Johns help about five minutes before lunch. By the time lunch came we hadn't managed to figure it out so John Told me to go to lunch and when I got back from lunch John had got it working for me, I hadn't a clue how long it took him but looking at it he changed the while loops to if loops and changed a couple of other things, this meant it was working perfectly now.
In between getting the robot coded properly I updated some work that John had sent back and luckily there weren't many changes so I implemented them and sent it back to him. Once everything was done I done the whole task of sending my robot around a track in which it has to track a black line. It also had to stop when I waved my hand in front of it, it had to stop and reverse when it collided with an object and it finally had to spin 540 degrees when I clapped my hands. It was a good day as I got a lot accomplished. Tomorrow I will carry on with the rest of the unit.