Day 2 – Project 1 – Friday.

The day started bright and early getting straight into building our robot again before I started working on programming the movement of the arm. Basically what we wanted to do was to have the arm arc back and forth continuously at different speeds depending on the amount of light that was detected by the light sensor. This required quite a bit of thinking when it came to working around the commands that I had through Mindstorm, though through a bit of determination and a fair bit of trial and error but I came through with the commands that were needed to get the arm to function properly and effectively. Working my way through the programming through the use of trial and error actually helped me learn a whole lot about the Mindstorm program and found that I was able to pass on what I had learned and help others with problems with their work. While I was working on the functions of the robot, Edrian was busy documenting our work taking photos and video footage of our progress, while Lee, Supa and Lucy built more onto the robot and started developing more ideas. At this point we decided to blend the 2 of our previous ideas by creating a number of different mediums that either of which could be used for any one of our final images. Im actually really impressed with the progress that the group has made so far, we all work really well together and it looks like were flying ahead of the others with an entirely built robot that i can now start openly testing different commands and functions with Mindstorm. I also like the fact that we havnt tried to be too complex with our design, we are going for a more simple but effective approach with our art combining what we already know and exploring different areas of not only Mindstorm but with the way that we approached showing our drawings. Our ideas are already developing with the way our robot will draw and be controlled with the idea of using music to change the movement and light to create a larger or smaller arc. Though these were still very simple control methods they were starting to lead us towards an idea of creating an ideal environment for the robot in our case a clubbing scene.