This our basic motor block. It controls the motors in ports B and C.

It allows us the move

backwards and forwards. All of this can be seen in the attributes bar.

For our first program we had to get our robots to go ten feet based on the amount of rotations
of the wheel.

Through my calculations I found that 17.2 rotations would take my robot approximately 10
feet. I did this by first calculating the number of inches in 10 ft. This number is 120 in. I then
took a ruler and found how far my robot went after one rotation. With the ruler I found it went
6.97 inches. To find the number of rotations i divided 120 by 6.97 and I got 17.2 rotations.

10ft=120in
the measurement of 1 rotation is 6.97
120/6.97=17.2

For my second program I used the touch sensors to make my robot switch direction and then
stop. I did this by first making the amount of rotations on the first motor unlimited. Then I
placed the touch attribute down. Then I placed another motor down which had one rotation
that went in the opposite direction. I did the same for making the robot stop but instead for
the second motor I selected the stop sign in the direction section.

For my third program I did something similar to the second but instead it was voice activated.
I ran the program then yelled stop which would make the robot then stop in its place. I also
had to make the amount of rotations for the first robot unlimited.

For my final program I used the ultrasonic system which measures the distance to make my
robot stop when its a certain distance away from the wall. I again had to make my first motor
unlimited. Then for the ultrasonic sensor I had to set the distance to less than 8 inches.
Finally I added another motor and set it to stop.

We also used the light sensor. The light sensor is another attachment to the robot that is able
to read what light amount of light rays is coming from a certain color. For instance in our
program we made for the light sensor we put white tape down on the floor. In order to make
the robot to respond we had to calibrate the sensor. The calibration allowed our program to
stop when it saw the white tape As the robot approached the white line it stopped because of
the change of color from the carpet (gray) to the color of the tape (White).
Light Sensor
Gray: 44
White:75

Parallel Processing

Parallel processing is the simultaneous use of more than one CPU or processor core to
execute a program or multiple computational threads.

Multi Processing

This week in Robotics I learned about the loop. The loop allows you to repeat the steps
contained in it. We used the loop to knock down books enclosed in a square plane. To do
this we had to use a light sensor to be able to turn our robot around so it wouldnt leave the
box.