Maryknoll Robotics Team: #2441

Teachers:                   Mrs. Williams

Mentors:                     Mr. Yong's son, Felix, Mr. Brown

Head Programmer:    RJ

Other Programmers: Nancy, Tyler, Kristen

January 7 - January 12

    This week the programmers found the Easy C programs in the kits and watched a power point about it and upload the MPlab and c complier on to the computer. They also tested each other on their knowledge on the programs. The programmers had a very hard time learning the programs, so they mostly helped the building team work on the robot. Next week their goal is to learn more about the programs by researching it online and getting help from other people.

 January 14 - January 19

     During week two we had some programmers from other schools to help us. After talking with them we have decided to stick with MP Lab. We have the default code from 2007 and we are ready to load the program

January 22 - January 26

    We continued to work on the programming to fix the backward problem. We called McKinley and found out we just had to move the wires. At any rate we downloaded the program to the robot and now it moves.

 January 27 - February 2

    We are now working on the arm program. we made a beginning one to get a feel for the code. Mr. Karl  Brown came to help us with the programming and we are starting off good to program the arm.

February 3 - February 16 (Two weeks)

    With the help of Mr. Karl Brown and Felix, we were able to get the arm code done and fix the drive code so now it can fully drive, we are currently working on the IR code to work with the IR relay