WEEK EIGHT
This week I received my PCB and started building the board. Initial testing with the board was underway when the robot building started.
The entire lab helped build the robots and assemble the chassis.
A couple of ideas for the message encoding:
1. Sending back 8 bits with five bits for the sensors, and 3 bits for signals and other combinations.
2. Sending back a character 'S' for STOP and 'D' for drive.
I eventually decided to go with the second method. This method proved to be simple but efficient later during the testing process at Mascatatuck.
The entire lab helped build the robots and assemble the chassis.
A couple of ideas for the message encoding:
1. Sending back 8 bits with five bits for the sensors, and 3 bits for signals and other combinations.
2. Sending back a character 'S' for STOP and 'D' for drive.
I eventually decided to go with the second method. This method proved to be simple but efficient later during the testing process at Mascatatuck.