THE ROBOTO PROJECTO III

Day 3-4 ( the weekend)

Over the weekend i attempted to create an algorithm that would translate colours into movement.. the colours had no meanings at this stage because i had no idea what the movement would look like. we had planned to be able to use python to code the algorithm as you can easily get a free plug-in that allow the NXT to use python.  The hard part of the algorithm was starting. I didn't care at that stage what the colours meant we could tweak that once we could see it running. What was hard was trying to decide what meant what. Was i to use the sequence of colours, or the position, or the ratios of different colours..  eventually i wrapped my mind around how it would work. I decided to  have a six position input with 5 different colours:

• the first position would directly effect the vertical movement
  the second position would modify the vertical movement           
  the third position would directly effect the horizontal movement / spin
  the fourth position would modify the horizontal movement / spin          
  the fifth position would directly effect the tilt movement
  the sixth position would modify the tilt movement         
   

there is a full map of my algorithm in my journal.