The last few months of 2015 were a busy few...... A joined the robotics teams with one of the local homeschool groups. The team spent the fall semester learning how to program in RobotC, how to program a virtual robot to pickup blocks, move trees, identify colors, put out virtual fires, and rescue "people". They also built a robot using Vex and Hexbug products. The competition challenge this year is to play basketball. There are balls located on a ramp and around the playing field board. The objective is to get the balls into either the goal for 3 points or over the scoring line for 1 point. The team wanted to build a launching robot so they designed and built a catapult robot with a scoop. Also included in the actual building and programming of the robot is record keeping and documentation of what the team has done. The team finally finished their robot late in December and we had our first competition just before Christmas. ...
Glimpses into our lives as a Christian homeschool family