User:Kristy.chahil/ENES-100/project 0

Week0 Preferences
1. Tribot 2. Music 3. Combo lock

Week1 Narrative
0/10/0 1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 18:42, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

I drew a systems level diagram of the most important parts in the robot using the computer software system "Easy Draw."Those parts of the tribot include the battery compartment, the motor control circuit board, the switch in the head, and the ardunio. I used the wikiversity page Tri-BotHack as a place for me to get started so that I would know where to start on my drawings. Also, I used the website http://www.robocommunity.com/article/13977/WowWee-Tri-Bot-Review/?textpage=3 to have a general idea of what the battery compartment looks like. I did have some difficulty trying to draw the geometric shapes to make them look like the parts of the tribot. It took me about 1 hour of messing around with the software to get the hang of it. Then when I drew most of the drawings I didn't know how to upload them to wikiversity.com.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/en/thumb/0/02/Battery_compartment_5.jpg/463px-Battery_compartment_5.jpg

10/10/0 regrade --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:40, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Week2 Narrative
I continued working on the program called Eazy Draw. I was frustrated with the program when I couldn't draw curves or when the program had something with curves it was usually dealing with arcs. I drew a picture of the Arduino on Eazy Draw and attempted to do a drawing of the head switch of the tribot. I am very stressed out with this software especially since I don't usually do electronic drawings of things. I ended up drawing a picture of the ardunio, the head switch and the motor control though I wasn't able to upload them because when I saved them on my flash drive they didn't get saved as jpegs. I'm just mad that about 4 hours of work went down the drain because I forgot to click the save option. I used the website [] as a reference to help me in drawing what an Arduino looks like. Next, I used the image from the website http://myrobothouse.blogspot.com/2011/12/tribot-is-autonomous-robot-from-wowwee.html to assist my drawing of the tribot motor control. After much of the struggle of trying to get a picture uploaded I finally got a picture of a Arduino and the motor switch posted.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATribot_Arduino.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motor_Control.jpg

10/10/10 ... the arduino did not need to be drawn, the motor control board did ... ideally the wires are colored in your drawing and there are arrows going to them that describe what is going on in the wire. EazyDraw looks like a great source of frustration and failure. Document what is frustrating you. When you feel stuck, name it. The naming goal is: Then start documenting every detail ... take screen shots, post them to wikiversity. Describe in detail what you are trying to do, what you expect the software to do at the moment and what the software is doing. Start with writing in your notebook, then stop and document here. Looks like you threw away a lot of gold. --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:41, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * unique
 * related to the symptoms
 * related to your expectations at the moment

Week3 Narrative
I edited the wiki web page []. On this page I created two more subcategories under the "Conceive" section. Those two categories talked about the features of a tribot and the original state that the tribots were in when my group and I started working on this project. When I initially tried to add information to the team page for the tribot under the conceive section it didn't work out as I had hoped. Once I added and changed things under the conceive sections of the team page I clicked save changes though when I went back to see if all the information was there it wasn't. So then I edited that part of the team page again and messed around with it for a bit before I got all of the information underneath the right category. There was also some confusion regarding how to create a subheading under a heading in the conceive section so I clicked edit directly next to the conceive title to see how Sharon had created the first subheading. That then helped me in figuring out how to create multiple subheadings under the conceive category on the tribot team page.

Look at this page for best formatting practice. Don't just copy the old formatting of previous pages. Dump everything you find onto the team page and then began to add order to it. I don't see that. All I see is a few graphics and text. Conceive ... robot that can travel the loop on the first floor of the CL building. Design .. hack a toy .. using (find the link) for inspiration. Most everything you find is going to be implement or Operate. Otherwise, this is just creating more chaos to the whole on-line project. 10/10/5 ... --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:53, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Week4 Narrative
I created the pager that shows the design of a Tribot. I inserted some images on that page to assist with what I was trying to say. I had to watch the video on creating a page a couple of times before I got the hang of it because when I would try to create one problems would occur such as how to format it. Another problem that came up was when I uploaded a picture the picture took up the whole page and I had to refer back to my professor's video to see how to make a thumbnail for a picture so that it would look better formatted. I used |the website to gather some information on omniwheels regarding their functions on a tribot. I also uploaded a screenshot of what the page I created looked like after I worked on it.
 * Great!! You built a web page. The arduino diagram needs to be replaced with something open source or a picture .. the motor controller is good ... the stepper motor should be separated from the omni wheel ... the wheel and motor are separate things .. 10/10/20 --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:55, 11 March 2014 (UTC)