sarah long a block post #2

robots-we were given a box of a lego kit to build a robot and for the first round of robot building we went by the manual. the manual gave us step by step instructions on how to build this robot. there was an intelligence brick, which was basically the brain of the robot. this is where all the controls were on and all the programs we created were on it. then we took the robot apart, not being allowed to look at the manual, we had to create a robot with the pieces we were given from scratch. our design was more of a flat design with the brick not being at such an angle. we had our two wheels in the front, and a little wheel in the back. in order for our back wheel to work we had a contraption in the back from the brick down the the wheel. we had two motors, one on each side, that were connected to the big wheels. the little wheels was not attached to any motor but it adjusted its position to how the other wheels were operating. we had to create a program that would allow the robot to run a course without us interfering with it at all. it had to go straight, turn left, go straight, turn right, go straight into a cave and have a light turn on and then turn back around and make it back to the beginning. our design was not completely successful, it made it to the cave but never fully made it back to the beginning. we had a problem that our light would turn on in the cave but it would stay on and not finish the program we had designed. i learned that even if you get frustrated during a project you need to breathe and look for different approaches to the problem you are having. with this project there is so many easy solutions and different ways you can fix something. next time i would not make the course so difficult to program and give us more time.