Day 5 - Alex's Journal

Today I worked more on the circular buffer. We were having issues getting the buffer to work with all 5 sensors and outputs. However, I was finally able to get it to work with all five sensors by the end of the day. Now the circuit reads input from the photodiodes (light sensors) and sends an electric pulse to the microprocessor. Then the processor reads the input of each sensor and outputs it to an LED light. Thus when each sensor picks something up it is instantly recorded and shown by the lights. This is an important step towards getting the bot to work correctly. Building this bot has helped improve my programming skills a lot already and I hope it will continue to do so.