I decided to choose my first robot, because is the more efficient for my football team. Compared to the other robot we did with the Lego Mind Storms, which had actuators, processors, a control tower, sensors and power source. So i would like my robot to have the same machinery used for this robot to work. For the Lego robot, we used a little box, which was the mind of the robot, this means is where all the data given was stored to then be used, and it controlled what the robot. The box is programmed from the computer, you had to give the machinery orders, that it will remember and do with just one command. And this is the kind of stuff i want my robot to, for it to react faster, for that is very important in a game of football. All this system helped the robot become a real football player, who would be able to do anything i asked it to do.
That day, all we had to do, is feel the Lego pieces, just to identify them, so that next time we could make the real robot. We would take the process box, or the power source, and Nicholas who was the one that plugged it on his laptop and gave it the commands. We didn't have to make up our own robot, we just needed to get familiar with the machinery so then we can do our own robot.
I also had to find some robolab programs we could use on our robot. I was successful and found some good programs, there weren't any problems and my team worked well. We were able to make our robot do what ever we wanted it to do, we made it go around a circle, and go straight, we then tried something harder, and put on some sensors, we put a light sensor and a push sensor, so that the light sensors, senses were it is, and the touch sensor what is touching or pushing.

We had to learn exactly what each part did.

The actuators would include the gears and wheels. It is easy to remember because the word ACTUATORS, sounds familiar to ACT, so you would know this was what made the robot do ACTIONS.

The power source was where all the energy came from, without it, it wouldn't be able to move.

The push sensor is for the robot to feel a push, so it knows something is in front of it and it wont be able to keep moving, so the sensor tells the robot to back up and continue the journey.

On Monday, i was searching for programs, that i could use in robolab. I was successful, and found some good programs. I think i worked hard, and i was successful, because there weren't any problems.

On Tuesday I had to find more programs to use, we were getting videos, and screen shots for our process journal. We were successful through this day and nothng went wrong.

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