Blog of the Three Wonderful Idiots

      In DTE class, we were told to make a project of our own using some cardboard and bamboo sticks and some Spheros. For our project, we were made into several groups of three or four. We wanted to make our program close to a drag strip, and this is what it was close to what we wanted it to look like: 

The dragstrip we made as an inspiration for the track.

We want to develop a drag race themed code for Spheros and make it work like a race. We want the Sphero to run on a randomized speed that will determine whether the player will win or lose.

We make the chassis for the Spheros with bamboo sticks holding the wheels, which were cardboard. The chassis itself was made out of tiny rolls of paper, and was supposed to work as a car, but after a while, we didn't manage to finish it. Here's the development log for the project:

Development Log: We receive instructions to do the project. My group mates are Noel Prasad-Barwick and Kade Fowler. Both are my friends and equally fun and annoying. We begin coding for the Sphero while Noel shortly abandons us. Mr. Carter shoots down the idea of luck-based speed and wins for some reason I can’t remember. We get it working with extended testing. We begin to make the things we require for the project. I begin to think that this will be a trainwreck, but considering our success rate together, I might as well give it a shot. I was absent while Kade did all the work. Noel, I assume, was also dying in his house. We made wheels, poked holes in them, continued programming and I get cut by my own dumb. Noel is absent once again. I got the official logbook from Mr. Carter’s site. The other two end up beating each other to a pulp while fingering smurf oobleck and insulting each other with overused comebacks. Mr. Carter starts a CoD match while I contemplate thinking about whether I should’ve brought my dad’s iPad or not. We’ve started making the starting point for the Spheros. As I’m writing this, Noel tries to read the previous logs while spitting on my arm. These guys are just plain idiots, but I don’t think I get to say so considering I’m friends with them. I began writing the blog for our oh-so beautiful project. But, my god, it's gonna be up to them right now if we pass or not. I'm just writing the blog. Noel recommended that I add as much sass as I can for the log and blog. It rhymes, but I'm gonna add as much as I can to indicate how much I want to dump slime on them or whatever heinous prank I can do. We seem to have lost our code in the ocean of projects. I don't believe we have finished it completely, but I have yet to find out. We're doing a blog this time. I'm just updating mine. These guys have barely helped me with the log and thus, it's just me covering every bit of topic. I write better than them, so they appointed me as the writer. Also because either they were lazy, or couldn't write. It's both, but I can forgive the latter. We are still working on the blogs Why am I still doing this He stole the line above from me. I made some adjustments to my blog, but I won't put this on the log. We haven't finished the project, but, oh well.		Date/ Student: Sep. 6 - 7 Andrei Montellano Sep. 14 Andrei Montellano Sep. 17 Andrei Montellano Days since Sep. 20 Andrei Montellano Sep. 23 Andrei Montellano Oct. 14 Andrei Montellano Oct. 19 Andrei Montellano Oct. 22 Andrei Montellano Oct. 28 Andrei Montellano Nov. 2 noel prasad barwick Nov. 2 Andrei Montellano Nov. 3 Andrei Montellano
Code/ Program: unknown		Notes: We planned to make our Spheros operate on luck based-speed.

The project was tough considering our own faults and the difficulty in our project. It was still fun to do, regardless of anything. I found out that we liked to mess around, but when we focus we actually get work done. Robotics was fun, but I don't seem to be interested in it much.