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On Wednesday, we spent the entire day constructing the obstacle course out of foam core board, creating the electrical  tape path, and programming the Boe-Bot to follow the electrical tape. We found line following programming for 3 QTI sensors online. We couldn't follow the programming given to us in the line follower attachment instructions because it was for 4 QTI sensors. We had to modify some of the online programming, but it worked! We ended up staying an extra two hours. The physics professor was kind enough to let us use the corner of his classroom during his class.

I took the foam core boards home and started drawing details on them to make them look more like roads.

We came in early on Friday and finished coloring the obstacle course as well as connecting the boards with packing tape and trying to figure out how to program the Boe-Bot to complete a continuous 3-point turn. Until this point, we had to stop and program the Boe-Bot for each individual movement needed to complete a 3-point turn during its performance of the routine. We knew we had to include subroutines in our programming, but we didn't know how. After looking for online advice, we learned how to create subroutines and added two different subroutines: one for stopping at intersections and one for pivoting backwards (useful for the 3-point turn). The programming took 4 hours to complete, but now the Roadbed 3000 completes a continuous route!!

This weekend Robert and I are working on the report. We divided the responsibilities and we plan to finish the report by Monday so that we can practice the presentation on Monday during class. Robert is a great partner and I'm looking forward to our final presentation! It's going to be great!