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After problems involving lack of hardware, I have decided to pivot to an easier project. I want to make a clock that I design, 3-d printed, and coded. I have made a 3d model file prototype involving a motor attachment that creates an arm, motor mount, and clock face. This involved a lot of 3-d design with fusion, trial and error with tolerances, and thinking.

I was finally able to get an output from the joystick. It ended up being a ribbon cable issue. The pi now can zero and read output from the joystick module.

Next steps: Design and print frame for car

This iniital time has been spent by me trying to learn abou tthe different hardware components, assembling parts of a car from a kit (not for final project, just to learn how it can be done), learning to solder, and general tinkering. All of this work has been recording using lapse.

(Includes ~5 hours of time not tracked)

Added improvements to robot to improve matchloading efficiency and consistency. Added routing to pick up 8 center blocks, score, park. Once again sorry for extremely poor quality.

Further refinements were added in an attempt to improve accuracy. Two vex distances sensors were mounted and using trigonometry we found an angle necessary to align with goals. Unfortunately with all of this, we are still struggling with accuracy and consistency.
(Apoligies for very poor vid quality, had to be compressed)

This initial work was creating the readme and improving readability of the code. It also includes all work done before time was being tracked (~10 hours). The current state of the code being run on our robot is shown.