User:Wtaylor3/Robot Car

Write problem/project Goal
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My First Task
Look at what the previous team has done and where I need to start.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
I thought that I was going to be able to find what I was looking for from the other teams page. I was not able to find out what was going on so I was stuck on what the next steps for me should be. I did not have a starting point so I had no idea on what to do next. I looked on Google to see what I could do or find a starting point for this project. I came up with no success on that either.

Week1 Narrative
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My Second Task
Look at tutorials for the remote control and start working on the project.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
What I planned to do over the weekend was different then what I actually did because I was sick and was unable to get any work done for my team over the weekend. I do plan to work even harder over the next weekend to make up for lost time with the project. I was however able to look at what I needed to do to get the work done that was necessary so I will be able to work on it as soon as possible.

Week2 Narrative
On monday november 19 I went to the class to get the items I needed to start on my project. After I got everything that I needed I took it home to look at what I had recieved. I did not get a chance to work on it that day because it had gotten late and I had went to sleep. The next day I woke up but was feeling sick I thought that I could still work on the project but as I was going to work on my sickness had gotten worse. For the next 4 days I was not able to work on anything because I had to get over my sickness. After I had started to feel a little better then I was able to try and work on my project. I was able to look at tutorials and see what I needed to do. I realize that I needed new wires because the wires that were provided were not good at all. Tomorrow I will get the wires I need to continue the project.

My Third task
To continue to work on the remote control for the car and finish what ever needs to be done

Summary of actual work over third weekend
I was able to solder a couple of new wires onto the RC receiver. I was also able to understand which wires went to which command on the RC receiver. I was able to mess around with the arduino but not as much as I wanted because the arduino software was not responding on my computer.

Week3 Narrative
On November 27 I came into class and started to mess with the arduino. I had to download the software because the computer did not have the software already on it. After downloading the software I then looked up how to program the arduino. After doing all the I went to look for the new wires that I needed to solder to the RC receiver. I needed to get a black, blue and red wire because they seemed to be the more important wires to the car. After getting the wires I had to wait until next class to solder them because I had to go to my other class. On November 29 I was able to remove the old wires and replace them with new wires.

My Fourth task
Continue to work with arduino and remote

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
I was able to connect the wires to the motor and get the battery charged up. I also was able to mess around with the arduino and mess around with the programing of the arduino.

Week4 Narrative
Earlier in the week I was able to come into class and solder the rest of the wires that I needed to solder. I solder the wires that were connected to the motor to the RC receiver to see if I can get the motor to work when I turned on the remote. The motor did not turn the wheels when I tried to move the remote back or forwards. I then checked the battery to see if it had a charge or not and I saw that it did not have a charge. I had been working with this battery for the entire project so I decided to ask for another battery because there was no way of charging this particular battery. After asking the teacher for a some what similar car I noticed that the car that I had had many parts missing that i needed to get the work done. My car did not have a charger for the battery which is why my battery was basically dead. I also noticed that the remote that I had did not have an antenna to it so that could have been another reason why the car was not responding when I moved the sticks around. I took the battery that was for the other car thinking that if I have that it would make the car work. Messing around with the new battery and everything I saw that the battery did not solve the problem. By the time I had figured that out it was time to give in all the parts to the project.

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