Day 40-Week 20

The final day has arrived of blogging. We have passed our racquetball challenge with a 100 percent and placed first in our class. It has been a pleasure working with Opi's Comet thus far and we look forward to our next challenge. This is Suraj signing off.

Day 39-Week 20

Our Monday began just like any other this week. Slumped and exhausted from the weekend we re tightened screws and began to practice our racquetball challenge. We found a few faults in our arm and are initiating construction of arm 2.0 on Tuesday.

Day 19-Week 38

As of this week we finished the arm and began coding. The ports seem to be a little clustered and thus is making it difficult to code. Our team continues to work hard and strive to be the best. We should finish the challenge by next week hopefully.

Week 19-Day 37

We have successfully completed the arm while for our ball challenge today. We still need to test it though, due to AP testing we will be missing some class periods however. LETS KEEP ON GOING OPI'S COMET!

Week 18-Day 36

 Ever since the evil testing has began our group has had little time to work on our robot. We continue to plan and design new techniques for our challenge. Despite these obstacles we are determined to complete the ball challenge.

Week 18-Day 35

Another boring week of testing has taken away our precious time. Between ELA and Ap testing we manged to reconstruct our arm in the given period of one day. Our robot has been lately inconsistent in its movements and we plan to investigate.

Week 17-Day 34

Due to some technical difficulties our robot was unable to move on Friday. We had to take apart the motor and clean it out. Once done, our motor was functioning again and the robot was back to normal.

Week 17-Day 33

Due to the infamous ap tests our week has been destroyed. WE accomplished very little because our team was only here during the week for one week. We received some advice from Nick however, and got some ideas for our next challenge.

Week 16- Day 32

Opi's Comet wrapped up the week with a brand new constructed arm and a half-coded robot. Boggled with multiple problems, our robot continues to test our patience. You can consider this challenge as a work-in-progress.

Week 16-Day 31

Once finished with our last daunting task Mr. Martin assigned us the same one again, but this time we must do it autonomously. The infamous autonomous challenge stumped our team last time, but the tides will turn. We initiated our week with reconstructing the arm.

Day 30-Week 15

We have successfully completed our robot today. With smooth and concise precision our robot will be sure to dominate our challenge on Monday. Although Suraj is the superior driver Alec will be the D.D. (designated driver).

Day 29-Week 15

Opi's Comet is well on their way to creating the perfect robot. Needing to put a couple final touches on the robot, we began practicing the challenge course. It seems though our arm may need a little bit of readjusting,

Day 28-Week 14

This week our team has covered a lot of ground. From building an arm to establishing a new canopy, we are way ahead of schedule. Our team has initiated the coding process of the arm and our future seems to be as bright as a light bulb here at Opi's Comet.

Day 27- Week 14

We have finished our search for parts today and plan on assembling everything throughout the week. Opi's Comet is well on their way to finish first among the the other groups for building a successful arm.

Day 26- Week 13

Opi's Comet finished the week with agreeing upon our final building plan. We managed to start the construction of the arm. We are still in the process of contemplating of using a big motor or small motor.

Day 25-Week 13

We began our research today on the tetrahedral challenge. Googling various arm techniques our group has managed to select our design. Consisting of an arm-like structure to lift the tetrahedrons and a simple wheel, our design is ensured for success. My name is Suraj and I approve this message.

Day 22-Week 11

Today was the big day of autonomous testing. After working countless hours on our robot we were able to score 90/100 on our autonomous test. For each straight line or turn we received a certain amount of points. Opi's Comet is very proud of their autonomous robot.

Day 21-Week 11

Being the last week to work on autonomous we scrambled to ensure our Robot worked correctly. While not having a cortex key we were forced to use an orange wire, which connected to the robot and controller. This forced us to walk our robot like a dog. Although inconvenient it got the job done.

Day 20-Week 10

After a strenuous week of attempting to correct our coding. We received a marvelous tip from Mr. Martin about battery power, which heavily influences the robot's course. We are now currently using all factors associated with the robot in order for it to work autonomously.

Day 19-Week 10

We began Monday morning with a great start. Completing two laps, the autonomous robot seemed almost complete, until we attempted to code the third lap. Our journey was about to take a turn for the worst.