In the pull up challenge, we've finally managed to have our robot complete the task consistently without some gear or axle snapping out of place. And better yet, it can lift itself at least a few inches off the ground.
Yesterday, Nick programmed the controller for the manual portion part of the challenge. On Wednesday, I stayed a couple of hours after school to plot out the autonomous course of our robot in the cube challenge. One of my teacher's former students came in an suggested a simpler route: starting directly parallel to the boxes, the four programs will turn at differing times (depending on he cube), turn back on course and do a U-turn to climb the ramp - all within 30 seconds.
On that day, I realized that we would have to replace the robot's brain. When new ROBOTC firmware is put in the brain, it's supposed to purge any old remnant programs. We put a few commands into the brain, but when we tested it, our robot started twitching and moving forward without any programming telling it to do so. The programming will have to be finished next week.
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