intoduction to robotics

Today is our final day in robotics class.
This was a pretty long term hard work and everything.
The thing that I learned and is one of the most important things I thing is robot contraction. Every peace on that robot is important no matter how small it is. The reasoning for this is that you need to have a stable robot that way you are able to make all of the turns correct and move in a straight line this is why robot design is important.

Programming the NXT was pretty easy after you got the hang of it, it did take a bit of time to learn all the tricks when writing a program. The hardest program that we had to Wright was with the Bluetooth it took some time to get it rite. The main things that you needed to know was how to do was get the motors moving duh, after that came turns swing turns and point turns.
Later on in the class it came down to using the sensors we had the sound sensor first then the light sensor then the touch sensor then the ultrasonic sensor. The main way that we used the sound sensor first was clapping this was to get the robot to move. Later on we worked on getting thresholds for this. Then there was the touch sensor it was pretty straight forwarded when it was pressed you could have the robot stop, backup or whatever you wanted it to do. Next there was the light sensors we first learned how to take thresholds with this sensor, and then we started programming them we could have them stop if there was a black line or follow the line. Then there was the best one of the entire ultrasonic sensor this sensor was able to detect things from how ever far away it was then you were able to program what you wanted the robot to do next.

The way that I have learned the use of math and science and technology while using robotics. Is that I learned that you have to use math a lot like when writing formals calculating gear ratios and everything. The main use of science is the class was physics like how come the robot will move and how far. The technology part was mainly programming and the use of sensors and motors.
The ways that I’ve need to communicate in this course was when I needed help or when it came time to help out a fellow class mate on there robot what they needed to do and everything. The collaboration between every one in this class was very important because at time we did need to share ideas on design you could almost tell that there was a little bit in everyone’s robot that came from someone else’s.