Meeting Summary 11/14/11

Agenda:

Programming Intro (New Member SumoBot Design Competition)

• Programming software overview(NXT-G), downloading software to robot, tutorials access
• Looping with Motor and Sensor blocks examples
• Programming Process: Plan robot behavior, Predict robot behavior before running code, run code and observe behavior, compare actual to predicted results, make adjustments, repeat process
• Experimental design time

FTC Team(Bowled Over Competition):

• Continued brainstorming designs based on game strategy selected last week  

Next Meeting

• New Member SumoBot Design Competition

• Programming continued: using the wait command to control robot behavior
• Construction tips
• SumoBot game scoring details
• Free design time
• Time permitting: Gears, the tradeoff between power and speed

• FTC Team(Bowled Over Competition)

• Begin to document design ideas into design notebook

• All: Drexel Univ. Engineering Trip on Fri. 11/18, see Mr. Koehler for permission slips