Mid Sem Break a.k.a MMDS project week

We finally managed to get our hands on a lego mindsotrm set, only thing is that its not a complete set, as it has cables, axles and certain key pieces missing and it didn't come with the software, however it was enough for us to get some work done at least.

We tried playing with the lego block and looking at the building diagrams which come with the mindstorm as well, we tried building a few ideas, looking around testing it out to see if it works well on different flooring.
Small thick wheels works well on most flooring, but don't have much grip.
Bigger wheels work better than small wheels, but will have difficulty when moving on carpet flooring(as most homes and the crit has carpet flooring).
Caterpiller tracks is slightly slow, however these tracks works best and can even climb up from normal floor onto a floor mat or carpet.
We've not test the caterpiller track fully yet, however just like tank tracks, it might be able to roll over small objects as well.
Moving slower will just mean we have to increase the delay times of "move" commands in the programs allowing it to have more time to manuver around.

With the lmitation of touch sensors (should have 2, we only had 1) we could only try out the single bumper system.
From what we have discovered, the sensors are not as sensitive as we thought, which means the single bumper system might not be good after all, as it will be using only 1 sensor for both left and right. However if we had 2 sensors we could have something like bumpers for even the sides of the cambot. So we'll have to have more building with that.

Thankfully the light sensor was in the set and working, we tested it out and yes just the same its not very sensitive, thus we would need to have a real test in the crit space in order to know how to accurately set the sensitivity of the light senor via the software.

And just in time to save us, Magen managed to get her brother's mindstorm set, which is the full set, minus the software....so right now we have 3 RCX modules for the mindstorm, one complete set, one not so complete set and yes, zero copy of the software.