User:Kshew12/ENES-100/project 3: TriBots

Week1 Narrative
This week I mostly focused on combining prior WowWee, BallBot, Tribot documentation onto my Project 3 team page: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:1sfoerster/enes100/fall2013/p3Tribot

Then I looked at the physical condition of each tribot and realized that they all were different in some way. For example, here are the pictures:

The power button looks like this and only the Bot A turns ON meaning the light of arduino board turns on.



Karen and I are looking for stickers to number our tri-bots and will ask for permission before we put them on unless you want other source to number/distinguish them

Week3 Narrative
I disassembled the head portion of a Tribot and tried to see the function of wires by applying voltage to it.

It seems like the amount of voltage it needs for this EL strip is greater than the EL wires because only one can be lit up with 3.6 LiPo battery and the power inverter I currently have. All 3 EL strips work fine, all have been checked :)

I tried to use the pre-programmed device as an alternate power source by replacing the end and connecting to my EL sequencer; however, none of the EL strips lit up. I also tried to put it on the inverter slot but I do not know where to put it since there are "input" and "output" for the inverter slots.

Week4 Narrative
Maxed out wikiversity PTs :)!