User:Ckpress/enes100/Ballbot

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Ballbot

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My goal is to figure out how the ballbot works. Assemble the Ballbot to stand on its head and remotely rotate a basketball balanced in its wheels.

Assign Task1
I created team page and individual page and scrumaged through old ballbot project files to find any useful information i could use.

Compare actual work done to Task1
I created the team page and my own page. Went through the files on the engineering class room computers and found photos of the fully assembled ballbot, the arduino, the motors, wheels, and the wheel connectors. I also found a useful power point from older teams works.

Week1 Narrative

 * Ballbot parts
 * Here are some of the parts more can be seen on my teampage

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
I am going to take parts of the ballbot home to get more aquainted with the ballbot and how it works/assembled.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Took parts of the ballbot (Tribot) home realized that alot of the parts were missing. Could not put the Ballbot together so i look up how the arduino works with light in comparison so the wheel motors. Also how the remote works, wanna get the ball to spin on the wheels when i press the up channel or volume button.

Week2 Narrative
Heres a picture of one of the three tribots we ordered this week to further or project.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Taking remote home over the weekend gonna figure it out in relation to signals when pressing buttons. Wanna get the motors to work when pressing a button on the remote.

Compare actual work done to Task3
The remote was so dismatled and so many pieces lost that it could not work. So i figured out how get the mortors to run by connecting the wires of the smaller ballbot to the mortor wires of the bigger ballbot. Just by playing around and switching the wires and holding them together.

Week3 Narrative
Ordered the wrong Tribot (ballbot) they are mini bots. I took it apart and found that nothing was useful. Here is some pictures of the dismantled Tribot. The rest can be found on teampage

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
I will learn more about the the motors in the wheels of the tribot.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Figure out the wheels all run on seperate motors connected to one central piece. So I need to figure out how to control them with set buttons I want when I press them using the remote. The BIG ballbot came in! I played around with it and got comfortable with it and how it works and how it reacts to certain buttons on the remote.

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
Plan to take apart the ballbot and connect the wheels to a base for balancing the basketball.