June 22, 2012
I tried to get the NXT working - there are continued battery issue (we don't have any). Jennifer found some rechargeable batteries and a charger for the battery pack. I plugged all of them in to charge them.
I finally figured out some basic programming for the NXT's. I wrote a simple program. When the battery pack had some charge, I tried to download it to the NXT. The driver for them needs to be installed, however, so I was unsuccessful (I do not have the permissions to install the driver). Instead, I used the NXT directly with some of the basic commands to drive the robot around a little bit.
I also spoke with Eduardo about the programming. There is an issue with the distance traveled down the hallway. The robot cannot treat the distances independently. Therefore, if an obstacle is encountered, the robot would not make it to the end of the hall (the total distance would remain the same). As a result, we are going to try to treat the entire path down the hall as a variable. If a turn is made, the total distance will increased and the robot will travel down the hallway until the total distance is reached.
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