Fundraising and Mission Progress

Congratulations Comet Warriors on a successful yard sale on Saturday!  We raised $230 and got rid of a lot of junk at the same time.  It involved a lot of work sorting, selling, serving, and then cleaning up, so thanks to all those who participated.

We also made some good progress on our robot missions.  Olivia and Lily built an attachment to solve five different missions  - namely transporting the dog trainer to the research area, moving the veterinarian to the research area, doing the animal exchange, retrieving the seal-mounted camera, and putting the gecko on the wall.  Nick, Lais, and Alyssa then programmed it to do the Biomimicry mission,

Last week we made good progress on our seeing-eye dog mission.  Olivia built a robot cart to help the robot get over the gate.  We then tried to program it to complete the mission and got it to work once.  Now we just need to make it reliable!

On the project Olivia and Lily worked to get pictures of our toy animals for training vision systems.  Below is a shot of Daisy (the word for the week) from above.

 Tara and Macy worked with the electronic football table to develop a simulation of animals wandering around a field.

Our hope is that if we can train the vision system what toy animals look like, and have it identify them wandering on a toy football field, then we can work up to having it identify real animals in real fields.  To make that work we need to find some farm animals we can take pictures of, preferably by flying our drone over their field.  Does anyone know anyone who has cows or horses?  Hopefully lots of them?