Competition assignment no.1

Find and measure distance to box - this is our first task:

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As this was the first complex-task we had to do with BALL-E, it took longer than expected to do it right. After the planning and the programming part, the robot was just moving back and forward and back and forward and back… you got the idea So we rechecked the program and did the debugging step by step.

After something like 15 tries, BALL-E managed to follow correctly the line. Something like this:

Now we’re working on the ‘measure the distance’ part and it’s all done. We predict that we’ll finish this today and hope that the other 4 tasks will go smoothly