Success! Our first robot program works!

On Wednesday we had another robotics meeting, and were again quite productive. We discussed more designs and strategies and managed to run a program that controlled the chassis and 4 motors of the robot (using RobotC)!

[Since the meeting I have been trying to get a program written that uses the compass to keep the robot in the same direction.]

The motors are very powerful, but we get a message on the NXT controller that the batteries are low, when they obviously aren't (they run seemingly forever on one sliver of battery according to the meter).

I was personally excited about the new opportunity to use polycarbonate to aid in the design and aesthetics. Take a look at this video:

I hope we can use this too, though I wonder where we might get a heat gun.