This is my first post on my RoboSumo blog. This will cover the beginnings of our project. Mt team consists of Ben Nel, Billy Hamilton and myself. We agreed to team up again as we have a proven track record working on projects together this year.

Once we had been briefed in the lecture, our first challenge was to wire and code an LED to flash, using the Arduino. This was completed with relative ease once we understood the coding system.

Once this was completed, we then had to configure a second LED and code both to be able to display our team number in Binary. This was much more challenging as none of us had an understanding of binary. Once we found our team number to be 1000001, we then had to determine the sequence needed for the lecturers program to recognize the code. once we had this, it was relatively easy to modify our coding. Once completed, we tested our coding off a laptop to check the sequence. Our code was perfect from the get go and we were the first team to complete this challenge. Hopefully a sign of future victories!

This is John Fernihough’s blog following the progress of the robot build for the 2020 Robosumo challenge for DT066A. More updates to follow as we progress further. Stay tuned!