CLASS+6

=July 14, 2011 =

During the first hour of this class we completed Test #2.

During today's class we focused on building the robotic arm. We chose to build the arm from "scratch" as opposed to using the premade gripper that was available to us. This was actually more time consuming but I enjoy starting with the basics. Once we figured out how to assemble the arm we only had a few minor problems with getting it to function. Problem 1: We were using incorrect code. We accidentally typed a piece of code in twice which prevented the program from running properly. Problem 2: The Visual Basic Program was freezing. We closed a number of programs that were running simulatneously and restarted the laptop. Our program was successful after the re-boot.
 * ROBOTIC ARM ACTIVITY: **

Proposed Agenda:
** Test #2 (50 minutes) ** ** Activities (3 hours) **
 * Work on your assignment(s)
 * Be sure to finish any activities you did not complete or feel you should retry
 * ** did you... **
 * build the [|Robotic Arm]? and put in a killswitch?
 *  get the [|Pan and Tilt Camera] working?
 * get a [|mini joystick] working with the buggy, camera or robot arm?
 * complete these analog input activities?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Activity1: The Temperature Sensor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Activity 2: The Potentiometer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Activity 3: The Infrared Range Finder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">complete the [|Buggy Challenge]?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> build the [|Pedestrian Gate] ?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">make all the programs in the [|VB basics] ?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">get the [|Stepper Motor]working //properly//?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">get all the [|Digital Input] activities done?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">get all the [|Digital Output] activities done?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">get //both// circuits built in [|transistors] practice?