Progress:
- We have investigated into the actual coding part of the project and have received some helpful links from Mr. Lin. However it seems that soon tutorial support for this program will terminate, so we will have to quickly assess the situation. Currently we are still looking into this program, which we think will serve our needs. EasyC V4 for the Cortex seems to be able to control up to 10 motors on a VEX robot in real-time which would work perfectly for what we need to do. We are in the process of learning this software. We are also working on a solution to an actual launching mechanism.
Problems:
- We are still struggling to come up with a plan to incorporate a latch mechanism into our projectile launcher which would allow us to quickly fire in repeated succession. We also face uncertainty on whether or not the EasyC V4 will be able to do what we need it to.
Plans:
- We will further discuss the possibilities of using the program Mr. Lin recommended to us and we will continue look for alternatives just in case the program doesn't fit our needs. Currently we are reading into all the supporting documents of this program to see if the program has the function of reading data files and thus acting upon them. We also plan to test the software with a robot to see how the real time control works
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