User:Steven1108/ENES-100/project 3

Week0 Narrative
1. Toys

2. Strandbeast

3. Costume

Week1 Narrative
The first week was spend looking at this CDIO page and observing the inner workings of the ball bot. Ball bot tutorial

Once I read through that I decided to go hands on and see what the robot actually did when you powered it up and pressed the head. The only thing that happened was the eyes and mouth flickered on for a second randomly. At first I thought that it was because I was figiting with the wires, but later I found/was informed that it was because it was running through the program. I never got any pictures of the lights because they happened so random and fast and were quite dim. I then decided to plug the wires in according to the formation given in the CDIO page above. When I did this and pressed the head nothing happened. I think I unplugged the battery. My goal for next week is to make something happen with the robot. I will also look at the code to see if I can make any sense of it.

Here is my /CDIO/ page.

Week2 Narrative
This week I messed with the wires to see if I could make anything happen.

Before I could mess with the wires I had to fix the problem with the battery. I looked at it for a while to see if any wires looked out of place. I saw something that looked like the battery and after plugging in a couple wires to it the arduino lit up. Once the battery was working I began to plug in wires randomly to see if I could make anything happen. I was not able to make anything happen so I Plugged in the wires according to the tutorial I posted in my week 1 narrative. I did this and nothing happened. Pretty sure I unplugged the battery again. I need to figure that out again and also look at the code to see if that is the problem

Here is the /CDIO/ page.

Week3 Narrative
I fixed the battery problem. When I did this and had the wires positioned appropriately the robot did a little dance. I noticed some strange things with the wires and head. I explain more in my /CDIO/ page.

Week4 Narrative
I put my wires exactly as they were in the tutorial so I could bring it in to show the class and the robot did nothing. I had them exactly how I did before. Something must be wrong with the wiring. The battery is exactly as it was previously. I tried to mess with it some more and I could get it to spin in a circle, even in different directions depending on how the wires were positioned. It would not do the dance that it did last time I put the wires in.

I messed with the wires some more and could make nothing happen. I then thought maybe the connection was off down in its innards. Turns out a wire was loose. You see in my video once I pushed the wire it started working.

My work is documented in my /CDIO/ page.