User:Jjenkins1028/robot car

Write problem/project Goal
Generate ideas about what the Team can make or do with the a robot car

My First Task
Create the team page and research ideas from other teams about how they built the robot car

Summary of actual work over first weekend
The individual ideas the team had for each team member was to research and investigate online and at home what materials we could use for the project. After brainstorming several ideas modifying a toy car was the best idea. Online I found examples of different toy cars that varied in speed and size. The main idea is to find a car where we can program it to correspond to different commands whether in Ardunio or another program. What I didn't plan in the research was to learn more about the ardunio program. My skills are better at building and design rather than programing so I thought it would be best to refresh my skills with ardunio.

Week1 Narrative
The team decided we were going to use a car that already had a separate programing bock's but just in case have a back up car. Over the weekend I searched my house to see if I had any but I had none. We also have spare cars in class so those also could come as a back up. After searching for a car I decided to brush up on arduino programing. I was at my house where I could not practice the practical parts of the programing but I could re-read the information and understand it better. online. I read a tutorial that was a little different than we do in class but had most of the same information we needed.

My Second Task
Programing and modifying the robot car

Summary of actual work over second weekend
This weekend I compiled a list of ideas under my last in-class journal entry on the different aspects of things we can do with the teams newly switch idea. We have a different car, a hummer, that we will have to make compatible with the ardunio program.Some ideas I came up with is making the hummer car move through a maze that we would create and make the ardunio program correspond to. Others ideas I brainstormed over the weekend where ideas how to make the hummer correspond to a maze program. We could change the wiring inside the car and combine it with some parts in class so that it could link up the ardunio.

Week2 Narrative
I brainstormed in my journal different ideas that we could with the car that we have now. At first we had mindstorm toy car but the programing was not working so we had to start over with a different toy car. Some ideas I planned to share with my group would in essence how to rebuild the car. The car is very large and is working fine except when need to take the top compartment off and find a place to put the ardunio. Theses ideas I thought about and came up some different ideas. After we take off the top part we could bend and break the plastic covering and combine it with some materials in the back and make it have a new design like the mindstorm car we had first. Also I was thinking we could add feelers to the front and back of the car to create a ardunio program where we wouldn't have to get a long cord from the computer and put it behind the car as it goes through the maze. As for the maze goes I was thinking a really small maze with books or a path way with different materials like books and pencils and bookbags. I think the ardunio could go under the new plastic covering we will make to that it come on and off when ever we need it.

My Third task
For the third week I plan to rebuild the toy car or improve the plastic part of the car as well to take it completely apart. I also plan to create a program in ardunio that will cause the car to move and might be able to link up to the remote control to tell the car which way to go.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned? this past week the team and I deciede to approach adjusting the robot car in a different way. Instead of place and adjusting the ardunio to the base of the car we are going to place the ardunio unto the remote control. That way the remote control can control where and what the car will do. After some outside work form class we decide to research at home and on our own time of the aspects of the project that is missing like the ardunio program and how we are going to create an obstacle course. I decide to research on some types of tutorials and versions of the ardunio program. http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-All-in-One-Getting-Started-Guide/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwth-XAaeA I also found and drew some ideas for the robot car. I could not send the pictures to wikiversity but found some ideas online for the obstacle course

Week3 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.' I found some links for examples for our project like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJh43aU_wM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHLnw9Yt1rk&feature=related. these are some examples that we plan to do in week 4. I also found some arduino tutorials on youtube-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HqXAmV_Ock. This weekend I also came in to class and worked on the car for programing a dimension the car. The dimension are for the obstacle course to see how large the course will be, the car is 11.5 by 19.5 inches.

My Fourth task
''Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the final weekend of project work. '' i plan to finish the programing of the ardunio and finish building the ardunio unto the remote control.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
What the team and I originally planned to do this weekend was the divide the work on the team page. I was assigned to work on the summery, material list, and place the rest of the pictures that we took on the team page. What I did that was different was adding special software editing to the video.



The video edition took longer than I thought and I had to convert it to function with wikiversity. Wikiversity does not take videos from the iphone or wmv(windows movie maker) and convert it to a gif file online. http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-png

Week4 Narrative
This weekend I sat down and placed all the pictures I had of the team on the team page. I had pictures of the remote control and us working on the circuits in the remote control. Also I put the video of the final car project on the team page. Since I had taken the video from my iPhone and added a beginning title on windows movie maker, wikiversity would not take the video. I then add to go online and look for a online converter. At first I converted the file to an png which is a slide show type file except that wasn't right. After several attempts of converting I converted the video into a gif. Then I went to edit the other missing parts of the team page. The material list was missing and I type the different material we used throughout the 4 weeks.

Complete Team Page
Fill out the Team Form (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).