For those of you keeping up, I’m pretty sure I have mentioned that the fellows and I were just going to be doing a lot of research for the first three weeks. Well, believe it or not, this can be a little boring. So, starting in week three, we began to do some experiments to break up the monotony. A lot of my fellow fellows are depending on information from sensors that they know very little about. So, we got some super scientific electric tape (almost as scientific as balloon tape, or even space tape) and started to figure some stuff out.
Ever wonder what a robot sees? This is what ours can see with its little camera. After mapping that out cone out, we also spent a bit of time outdoors (the weather has been perfect)!
We had to get a feel for what the base code could do without any modifications. Only two members (Lex and myself) on the team had any idea what that was like, as they had participated in NASA Swarmathon 2017. Also, we may have had to use “human walls.” It’s not the most ideal testing area…
All in all, needless to say, monotony broken! As I write this, we have moved past the research stage (though, does one ever move past the research phase? I mean… truly?) and are doing a lot more of these types of experiments now and writing a lot more code!