Process Journal

23/2/2010 Journal

For this project, we had to firstly: research about robots and write a simple investigation just so we can know a bit about robots, and have a better idea of them. After that we had to create designs of three robots, pick one and then make it. At this stage we are done making our three robots and picking them and now we have started investigating the parts of the Lego that we are supposed to use to make our robot. We found out what all the parts are and we also plugged the Lego tower to the laptop to programed the RCX
This picture is of the RCX. We plugged it in to the laptop with the Lego tower so that we could program it.











This is a picture of a light sensor. A light sensor senses if there is anyone or any items in front of it so then it stops. There is also another type of sensor which is the touch sensor. What the touch sensor does is when it bumps into any thing it stops too.















There are also some pages of the book with the steps that we had on how to build the robot.

































This is a picture of the lego tower connected with the laptop. We needed to connect it with the laptop so that we could program it.









This is a picture of the lego tower connected to the laptop and it also has the RCX so that we could program it and make our robot work how we want it to.















These are some parts
that were in the kit we were given.







8/3/2010

On 4/3/2010, we finished building our basic robot successfully and we also added a touch sensor. After that, we plugged in the Lego tower the the RCX into the laptop and we tried to program it again. We were successful and unsuccessful, we were successful because we were able to connect it to the laptop and we were also unsuccessful because we didn't program it properly (the way it was supposed to be programed)
My goals for next week are to program my robot the way we want it to successful (to finish the challenge given to us by our teacher)




15/3/2010

Today we made 3 new programs. For the next lesson, we will try to program the RCX so that it can move the way we want it to.

16/3/2010

We found a few mistakes in our program and the steps we are doing. We figured out how to program it correctly. We took a few screen shots of what we were doing. We also made a few more complicated programs rather than simple ones.