Finally Making Again

I was starting to get pretty pissed at myself for not building or making anything for such a long time.  Don't get me wrong, I think about building and making all the time.  I find ways to help students build their robots in the classroom.  I just don't spend a lot of time making for myself.  So I made a point of attaching bumper switches to my robot today to practice my first round of touch sensing.

Oddly, I got it to work the first time.  It was quite a pain in the a55 using the cheap wire I apparently bought without reading the product description well enough.  Word of warning, stranded wires suck for small building and breadboards.  They are flexible, but that doesn't really mater until you get up into the larger gauged wires.

I cleverly hid my battery packs beneath the top deck.  I just wish I had cleverly used my multimeter to check that the batteries I was using had power before I made them disappear "under the hood".

All of my coding (and my students coding practice) can be viewed through codebender.cc where I store all my Arduino sketches (e-high-five to Christos and the Codebender team for making sharing sketches really easy).  Search for code under brybry75 and know that the code I write always starts with 0_ or BG_ (my students start their code practice with their own initials under my account).  Today's code can also be searched by name 0_Bumper_Demo if you are interested in viewing.


Hopefully there will be more to share before school is back in session on 02/23.  Then it is back to being a Science and Robotics Instructor for the kiddies.