GenTech Stuff

Restate Requirements

http://www.nxtprograms.com/line_follower/steps.html
this site proved helpful by give advice on everything from building the robot to the programing like how to calibrate the light sensor. http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Community/NXTLog/DisplayProject.aspx?id=49f08489-ec27-4914-bd2c-b4767fb65e3b this site was helpful in teaching us about The Turnable Light Sensor Innovation, or as I like to call it, the TLSI, which would be a good addition to the bot so the program doesnt have to be a complex.  http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?p=31569 this site is great because its a forum so it has alot of different  peoples opinions  on one site.

Research Report

http://www.nxtprograms.com/line_follower/index.htmlthis bot is ideal because it has a really smooth ride to make sure the light sensor doesn’t move around more then it needs to.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.techbricks.nl/images/lego/20100220/line%2520follower%2520base%2520LDD.png&imgrefurl=http://www.techbricks.nl/My-NXT-projects/nxtlinefollower.html&usg=__gQFvgXo3K3ZwQx4y7Ce4r4JOtHk=&h=300&w=400&sz=42&hl=en&start=7&sig2=-rzpHAQDk4w4w11EagPlWw&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=BCBWTEJgOSYoKM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmindstorms%2Bnxt%2Bline%2Bfollower%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=CkIRTKOjFYa3rAef5Zm1BA this bots problem is the light sensor is so far away from the robot making it hard to control
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://nxtblog.davidjperdue.com/__oneclick_uploads/2008/01/line-bot_small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://nxtblog.davidjperdue.com/2008/01/17/line-bot-another-version-of-zippy-bot/&usg=__uLaoUirVuqQq0mGcVWvoA_3_UOc=&h=322&w=393&sz=24&hl=en&start=30&sig2=fYmHkbb_FVh8VOWDs5sP6A&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=u87jYn3etnOSAM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmindstorms%2Bnxt%2Bline%2Bfollower%26start%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26ndsp%3D21%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=bUIRTPvYO4yyrAf_kbWyBA this robot is good because it has a simple design and good cord management

Design Concept

our robot is going to have the brick right side up to give it more space in the front and back for sensors such as light(to see the line) and push sensor( to hit the block at the end and stop). big wheels to minimize the the wheel rotations needed.its going to have a small wheel in the back that swivels for maximum movement from right to left light sensor in the back to not get in the way but can still hear the clap to start moving.

Project Plan

Design Review

Damn son, that test was challenging. But in all seriousness, it was just fine.

1) Most of the network stuff

2) Most of the Database stuff

3) Whatever else you fell like covering

Issue: The Voyager 2 Probe is sending information back that makes absolutely no sense. This isn’t too big of a problem though because NASA believes they can fix the probe remotely. However, it currently takes 13 hours to send the probe a signal, and then another 13 hours for the probe to return a signal. In the future, space exploration will be moving farther and faster, thus leading to greater distances and much longer communication times. You say it’s impossible to send transmissions faster than the speed of light?

IT Component: Well, information is being sent 8.71801618 × 10^9 miles. That sounds like extreme Information Technology to me.

Possible Solutions: Get really good at waiting. Or, quantum entanglement could be used to make the communication instruments communicate instantly, regardless of distance. Scientists have recently gotten whole atoms (before then it was just electrons) entangled with each other and moving each other over significant distances.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/10/they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to-voyager-2-repairs-underway/

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Deciphering-Quantum-Entanglement-in-Photosynthesis-141742.shtml

1) Bunny suits

2) Masks aren’t made with Shrinky Dinks

3) Gold is an awesome conductor

4) Fab rooms are stupidly clean

5) Wafers are like cities

6) Moore’s Law

7) Wafers break like tile

Silicon is “Really *gasp* Heavy”

9) Computers are really stupid but crazy fast

10) The way images are saved seems really cumbersome

11) Chips are super fragile

12) Humans don’t make very good computers

13) My computer is 6 years old, 6 years slower, or 2^3 as slow as modern computers. That’s 1/8th the speed of current chips.

14) My computer is serviceable though, it can get on the internet and play games

15) ROM used to be erasable with sunlight, they even had tiny windows. How adorable.

16) Silicon becomes glass when mixed with Oxygen

17) Binary is just on/off

18) Our NXT programming is “high-level”

19) Literally, rivers were required to power and cool computers

20) I’m glad I wasn’t around during the 80s

Day 1 reflection:

These guys look like my dad did. But instead of axes and hodads, these dudes work with transistors and fiberglass boards. Steve takes everything he does to an extreme, and Bill plays poker with life. Both outfits are tiny and pretty darn ghetto.

Day 2 Reflection:

Bill got people to need him and Steve wasn’t afraid to push people away. Apple’s riding high while Microsoft needs to lie to get jobs. Bill is still not cool, despite his business success. Ballmer and Allen are excellent friends to Gates. Jobs stole Pepsi’s president. Steve is absolutely insane; Woz seems like a perfectly good guy though. Xerox developed the mouse and graphical interfaces for the first time. Xerox went ahead and gave Apple their stuff. Apples staff is just a little crazy.

is supposedly the sum of my blog posts so far. Here’s hoping.