Week 3 Day 2 - June 25

Today the robotics team had our last face-to-face meeting with Dr. Namuduri.  Tomorrow he is off to India and we will continue to be in contact via Skype.  In the mean time, Omar will remain our solid foundation of information regarding troubleshooting our NXT programming.

Before we could get too deep into programming the robotics team focused on the completion of our presentation for this Friday.  It is official, it is on Power Point, and it is days away from being shared with the RET group.  For a sneak peak... here it is... https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5th6f2wb5j7x28g/8tlMuBotZx.

I started getting into the actual programming of the Bluetooth portion of the program this afternoon.  Using the YouTube tutorials I attempted to simulate what is shown on the tutorial.  After several attempts at multiple variations of the program I think I am stumped.  Obi Wan's light sensor gives a numerical output of 1-100, then a mathematical functions converts this output into simply 1-5.  Obi Wan's motors are programmed to follow a black line of tape on the floor using the numerical output from the sensor. It would make sense that we could send the number sensed by Obi Wan's light to Luke and Luke could respond accordingly.

Yeah.  That would make sense.

I think the hardest part about troubleshooting involves the lack of confirmation about where the problem lies. We cannot confirm that our send program with Obi Wan is good or bad, nor can we confirm that the problem is our receive program with Luke.

Keep trying.  To be continued...