Friday we were split into new groups with the goal of creating a mechanism whose input is light and whose output is a motorized reaction. We were off to a quick start because we were told we only had about an hour. Our group quickly organized an idea that dealt with placing 3 LDR sensors on separated planes and using a servo to follow a flashlight which would be used to activate the LDRs. The Idea seemed simple enough and we divided jobs and got to work without the goal of perfection-rather just to get something working-in response to the multitude of failures last week.
We went about the coding by trying to patch together the two codes from earlier in the day and we had a difficult time getting this to work. A tip of where a single axis code was online came a little later and we tried to utilize this and add another axis. This took nearly the entire time and in the end, only one axis was working correctly. I noted stirrings from the rest of the group who talked after the project about how no one was on the same page and how the design was new to them-I agreed to an extent and perhaps those with the driving force behind the design should have illustrated it a bit better but really thought that this issue would have been addressed with a tad more time for the completion of the project.
