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=Team Name:      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> Black Barracudas =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Team Symbol:      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">I. Team Members Names (First Only)      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Jackson, Neal, Sahil =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">II. Instructions for Challenges      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">A. For each challenge you must write a short description of the challenge using complete sentences. Please write in 3rd person, scientific writing. B. This is where you should include your programming code by including screen screen shots. You should place all multimedia on <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">[|photobucket.com] <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> and then incorporate it into the site using the embed code. C. For each challenge you must provide some form of multimedia exhibit. This would be images, a short video, an interview, etc. You should place all multimedia on <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">[|photobucket.com] <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> and then incorporate it into the site using the embed code. D. For each challenge you should provide a written explanation of the difficulties encountered with the challenge. =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">  = =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">  = =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">III. Challenges (Template)      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Copy this section for each of your challenges:

===<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">DATE: 4/?/2008      === <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Title of Challenge: A. Description (Short Paragraph): B. Programming Code (Picture and Written Explanation): <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">C. Multimedia: D. Difficulties Encountered/How You SOLVED the Challenge! (Paragraph): <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> ===<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">DATE: 4/3/2008      === <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Title of Challenge: **Point Turn** A. Description (Short Paragraph):**Make the robot go forward 25 cm. Then you make the bot turn 180 degrees to the left, and then back up 10 cm. The bot will go forward, turn into postion, and then start moving backwards the same direction as moving forward, except going backwards. Total distance is 35 cm.**      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">B. Programming Code (Picture and Written Exp      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">lanation): This our point turn program. What we did      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">was       <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">use three moving palettes they all were programed to use motors A and C. Now i will explain what we programmed in each of these palettes. =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">The first palette, is set to move forward at a speed of 75 and stops once it gets to 500 degrees. At the end of this action it is set to brake.

The second palette is set to do a point turn, the point turn is meant to turn the whole the speed was set to 40, and was set to take one rotation. After this is over it is programmed to brake as well. Lastly, for the last palette it is set to go backwards 220 degrees. At a speed of 75 and then just brake. And the point turn challenge is completed. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">C. Multimedia:      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">media type="custom" key="653813" =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      = =<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">      = <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">D. Difficulties Encountered/How You SOLVED the Challenge! (Paragraph):Some difficulties with the robot was getting the robot to go exactly 25cm forward, and then go 10cm backwards. This was hard because there is no option in the drop down box for the robot to move a blank number of cm. To fix this the robot was moved along a meter stick, the movement was measured in rotations. So that instead of getting the robot to move in centimeters, but rotations. There was also the fact that the robot had to go just the right speed just right so that it wouldn't throw of the distance. We had to make it go pretty slow so that the robot would have more control over the point turn. This speed was set to 40. These are some of the harder problems with programming for challenge one, point turn.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> ===<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">DATE: 4/16/2008      === <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Title of Challenge:Square A. Description (Short Paragraph):Make the robot move a total of 248 cm in a square. It is an average 62 by 62 square, not to big or small. The robot has to follow the outline of the square on the ground. Each inner square is 31 by 31 cm. B. Programming Code (Picture and Written Explanation): <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">

For the square challenge first, was programmed to go forward 62 cm, and then do a point turn to the right. The robot was set to repeat the same step 3 more times, to make the robot complete a full square. That is basically all that was needed to complete the challenge. D. Difficulties Encountered/How You SOLVED the Challenge! (Paragraph):       <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Some problems that were encountered during the square challenge were getting the exact angle for the turn. Also to get the robot to move at a certain speed to not throw off the turns. But once all of those things were found it was simple because it was the same thing 3 times. Overall this experiment went well after the hardest things were figured out.

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===<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">DATE: 4/17/2008      === <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Title of Challenge:backing up A. Description (Short Paragraph):       <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">This challenge was just a right turn, then backing up into a parking bay while making a noise. To do this the first step was to get it to move forward about 2 rotations then make a slight turn. Last just to back up about 3 rotations and at the same time making a clapping noise. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> B. Programming Code (Picture and Written       <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> Explanation): <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Picture 1. Backing up Code.

First the robot will travel C. Multimedia: D. Difficulties Encountered/How You SOLVED the Challenge! (Paragraph):       <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Some difficulties encountered in the challenge were the programming of the sound and the //gradual// turn. the sound was difficult because it was hard to figure out how to make it turn and make a noise at the same time. also, it was difficult to program the gradual turn because it was difficult to figure out how to do a gradual turn instead of a point turn.

5. DATE: 5/20/2008
Task 1 (10 points): At your work area on the table come up with a strategy to calculate the velocity of your robot at 30% power over 70 cm. Repeat the measurement 3 times and get an average. Think about the equation for velocity. Carry out your plan and determine the velocity.

a. Brief description and image (snip and you can upload to the wiki- give your image an uncommon file name) of the programming you used to solve this challenge. This experiment worked out very well there was a pretty large margin in the velocity. But other than that this task was a success. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif""> For this experiment only 1 programing block was needed

For this the speed was set to 30% and the duration 1450 degrees.

b. Description of what made this task difficult for your group. What made this challenge tough was the fact that this task had to be done 3 times and then averaged out. Other than that it wasn't that hard to accomplish.

Task 2 (20 points):: At your work area, come up with a strategy to get your robot to accelerate over a 1 meter distance. Have it come to a stop at 1 meter.

a. Brief description and image (snip and you can upload to the wiki- give your image an uncommon file name) of the programming you used to solve this challenge. b. Description of what made this task difficult for your group.

Task 3 (30 points):: Determine the velocity of the rotation of the wheels on your robot. Program your robot at 45% power to rotate 10 times. Calculate the velocity of the rotation of the wheels at this power in cm/sec. (Hint: You need to know the circumference of a wheel and remember it goes around ten times!)

a. Brief description and image (snip and you can upload to the wiki- give your image an uncommon file name) of the programming you used to solve this challenge. b. Description of what made this task difficult for your group.

Task 4 (40 points):: On a graph, plot the velocity that your robot travels 1 meter at 20% power, 40% power, and 70% power. Include an image of your plot in your documentation by snipping it. Make sure it has units and axis labels. Using your graph, determine how fast you think your robot wold be traveling if you programmed it to go at 60% power. Calculate velocity in cm/sec. a. Brief description and image (snip and you can upload to the wiki- give your image an uncommon file name) of the graph. b. Description of what made this task difficult for your group.

Task 5 (50 points):: Create an obstacle course on your lab table with building bocks. It should contain one right point turn and 1 left point turn. The robot should stop at the end where you have built a small tower of blocks. Your robot should not knock the blocks over.

a. Brief description and image (snip and you can upload to the wiki- give your image an uncommon file name) of the programming you used to solve this challenge. b. Description of what made this task difficult for your group.

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