We're preparing for tomorrow's sprint review, and it's just hit us that we're 3/8ths of the way through this project. Remember those nice, ambitious goals for an all-terrain, self-charging, person-following hexbot? We're NOT going to be able to reach them. Our goal for the next sprint is now a walking hexbot.
In this sprint we learned what we don't want our project to become.
-Juanita
In the final sprint, we still want to accomplish one of those stretch goals. We're split between handling terrain and navigating to a beacon. The challenge in handling terrain would be almost entirely in the code, assuming our servos are strong enough to lift the hexbot over the obstacles (which we're not sure about.) Seeking a beacon would require integrating a sensor and making the code figure out the direction to go.
In other news, we burned out a servo. There was a lot of smoke. We're still waiting for the servos we ordered to ship, and we already got a video of the three-joint leg moving, so it's not the end of the world.
Why is it moving? It shouldn't be moving! | When smoke comes out of a servo, it usually doesn't work again. -Rocco |