DAY 26: lucky 13

or "last minute challenges and also links"
or "this is not super relevant, or even a little relevant"

ACTION!!!!

Challenge thirteen, here we are! Last challenge, last minute. perfect
Auto-threshholding,  checks the value in ambient light here,
and then detects a change in the ambient light
and then does an ACTION (in this case it is ACTION!!!!)

Day 25: GO TIME

or "YES YES YES"
TODAY WE SORTED OUT ALL THE LITTLE BUGS.

click to enbiggin!

so sortbot is working 10 out of 10 times (make up numbers, it will make you sound like you know what is what)

I have a great idea, it is called: LIVEBLOGGING THE EVENT. AWESOME.

but right now nothing is happening

totally just chilling because it is

15:35!!!! and nothing happens until 16:30

16:00: mad chilling still, experienced some technical difficulties (due to skewed sensor readings from new batteries)but they were fixed by a number adjustment, WOOOOOOOO
BUT VIDEO:

16:30: got started, working smoothly! explained "his mission" approx 100 times.
reception was good! that was cool!!
17:05: sorting got irregular, decided to change batteries.
-10 minutes of freaking out happened here-
17:15: turns out changing the batteries changes the values, gosh darn
but it is fixed and working again! 
17:30: DONE! YES. YES YES. SORTING ROBOT SORTING, DONE DONE DONE

Day 24: titles! titles like crazy!

or "links like nuts!"

Right on, so, Sortbot is mostly working with some glitching because the blocks bounce around a bit when it ID's so it occasionally puts black blocks in the wrong pile.

and Sortbot has an awesome new face!

he's CUTE (or CREEPY)

and an awesome new mustache!

he's DISTINGUISHED

and an awesome new video!!!

Day 23: FULL STEAM AHEAD

or "have I mentioned how excited I am about the openKinect project??"

Okay.

Okay.
so
today I thought we were ready to start taking video-
(because I always come in thinking it is going to work and then it is just a little broken and I don't know why I always think that)

So after fixing a problem that was mostly batteries,
we tried to figure out why it wasn't sorting correctly (today)
we putzed around for 3 hours unsuccessfully until Professor Berg suggested using electrical tape for the black blocks and LO. THAT FIXED IT RIGHT QUICK.

but now it is is behaving badly in some other way.

I really REALLY wanted to get a video of it working- (heck, I wanted to get it WORKING)- before Thanksgiving,
but sometimes that just isn't happening.

(always so, SO close!)
(geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez)

(happy Thanksgiving)

Day 22: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or "i am 100 percent excited about 100 percent of interfaces 100 percent of the time"

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Day 21: aw YEAH.

WORKING ROBOT.

WORKING

ROBOT.

today we finalized some code, and fixed some little bugs that kept it from actually functioning.

 and once the color is ID'd it brings it toward the light, and SORTS IT.

and the best part is being able to run it off one command-

BAM.

Day 20: ITS GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME

or "Stupid robot cup"
SO CLOSE.
SO CLOSE TODAY.
ALMOST SO CLOSE.

SO MUCH CODE

TODAY IT ALMOST WORKED YOU GUYS.
ALMOST.
ONCE THE KINKS ARE OUT OF THE SYSTEM WE WILL ADD THE LIGHT FOLLOWING AND THE SORT AND OH MY GOSH.

right-
so, here is our current master-code.

n is set to a value with no associated....stuff.

and then the counters in both motors are reset because-

Our "plow search function depends on the count of the motors.

The plow function only operates when the n-variable is 0.

The n variable is 1 when-

either proximity sensor sees something.

(right now it chirps for testing purposes, man it is so annoying)

so when n=1, the search function is active-

it pretty much, just, um, searches.

yep.

and then once it grabs on the color is ID'd

 so that is neat. yep.