Challenge 3

Today I came in after school to work on my robot. I now have it completely finished and all of the requirements completed. I didn't come up with my own song, props to jude for coding the entire happy birthday song, but found that there are "scrolls" that you can use to bring up premade songs. I was able to get my robot to attract the fly, bring it into the trap, close the door at just the right moment. I think its worth nothing that it does it in 5/100ths of seeing the ball and then play the digesting song then flipping the ball out of the trap. It then does all that in reverse completely setting itself up for the process again. I actually tried this 10 times and it worked every time without a hitch, I only stopped because it got boring and was pretty much proof of concept for me anyway. Well I'm really glad that I was able to get this done. Hopefully it will work all the way tomorrow.
Even though I got it to work pretty well, there were a lot of problems I had to get through. The timing was a pretty bad problem. As If I didn't get it right there would be times when one part would grind against another while trying to move. And the other problem I had was when there would be too much wiring, (because I used all the short wires, I had the one 150 mm or cm one left.) So my Dad said that I should wrap those around the base. Instead of doing that I just moved the RCX to the other side and sat it there. And the wiring was troublesome at times, because it matters as to what direction you put it on and then test it and what way you put it if you move something. Because this can completely change the direction of the motors your using.