{"id":38,"date":"2013-01-15T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2013-01-15T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:28:19","slug":"robotics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/?page_id=38","title":{"rendered":"Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Robotics Club was an after-school extracurricular activity. \u00a0We used the Hummingbird Kit found here: \u00a0<a title=\"Hummingbird Kit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hummingbird.com\">hummingbirdkit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This kit provides a variety of sensors, lights, motors, and servos. \u00a0The visual programming interface is easy to use and very quick to learn and produce working models. \u00a0The &#8220;robots&#8221; are tethered to the computer because the software on the computer drives the interface board. \u00a0The motors also require more power than USB can provide so the board requires a power supply as well.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of the final robot following a white line on the floor are found at:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rover Mark I\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MisterLaskowski\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MisterLaskowski<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The logic is very simply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loop<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0if on tape<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 move forward<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0else<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 stop<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 back right 1 unit<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0if on tape<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 move forward<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0else<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 back left 2 units (to make up for a possible right error)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robotics Club was an after-school extracurricular activity. \u00a0We used the Hummingbird Kit found here: \u00a0hummingbirdkit.com This kit provides a variety of sensors, lights, motors, and servos. \u00a0The visual programming interface is easy to use and very quick to learn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/?page_id=38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/larrylaskowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}