Challenge 7: Baker's dozen

In today's challenge we were asked to make our EV3 able to drive, using a very limited amount of pieces. We were able to use the two wheels on motors, and the metal ball in the cup, and then only thirteen or less other pieces. The actual challenge part was to make the robot drive between three lines of tape on the floor, going on both sides of each one, and coming to a stop at the end.

I worked with Corvo on this challenge, and I would say that the easiest part (for me at least) was the building of the robot itself. It was slightly challenging to use such few pieces, but it was rather fun. The most difficult part would have to be making the turns as accurate as they needed to be. It required a lot of editing the angles and number of rotations to make it so the robot would not drive over the tape.

We programmed it to move forward until it reached the end of the tape, then make very wide turn so it could fully clear the line without driving over it. It repeated this action until it had gone around all three pieces of tape.

I don't think I necessarily learned anything new this challenge. But it was very good practice using turning, and getting the turns to be tighter or looser depending on what you're trying to do.

My goals for the next challenge are probably to practice keeping my codes simple, but make them do more.

This was the final result of this challenge:

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