Tuesday February 15th

Today we received a presentation about giving presentations. Professor Mason claimed that his lecture would last 30 minutes, yet it lasted an hour. This was an invaluable lesson about presenting. Anything that you expect to take a minute will take twice as long.

The rest of the evening was spent working on the presentation. I generated this lovely graphic, which looks like it was put together by a 5 year old, in order to explain our programming strategy.

This illustrates the 5 major paths that the robot could take through the area.
The over arching programming strategy was to write code which handled each of these paths. The result was that we created a much larger program than was necessary, and the scale of it prevented us from making the lower level elements robust enough to always function.

-B