Welcome To The CSC490 Robot Team Blog! 

 

Our Quest

We aspire to become the team responsible for making robots take over the world.

Just kidding (maybe). We would like to welcome everyone to our blog. In Dr. Stonedahl's CSC490 (SI) Class, our group has been tasked with a term long project to manipulate the functions of Lego EV3 robot with our beloved Eclipe as well as Android Studios. Both IDEs implement the Java programming language, which we have been trained on since our baby-steps of the computer science world. Android studios uses an XML format which allows drag-and-drop GUI interface that creates XML code which can be referenced and manipulated using Java.

Current Strategies and Goals

 

 The current goal of this week is to research functionality of the Bluetooth API and the Wifi API within LeJOS (the Java replacement firmware for the preset Mindstorms that come with the EV3). We are fairly lenient in using Wifi capabilities for our robot to communicate with an Android device (and possibly other robots/devices). Abby has recently established Bluetooth connection between the EV3 brick (the brain of the robot) and an Android Tablet assigned to us. Currently, the devices show up on eachother's connected list.

About Us

Abigail, Alerik, and Timothy have been made acquaintances long ago (literally last year) in Wizard Master Stonedahl's teachings of Artificial Intelligence. From there, the three wizard apprentices learn the magical spells and incantations to control a Lego robot (and penguins). The trio has been fated together to combine their vast knowledge of their robot spellbooks to make this project succeed.