Aaron and Keyur's Sorting Robotic Arm

Hi, today Aaron and Keyur will like to show you our robotic arm. We made it out of Legos.
1. We got a kit and a book that told us how to do it.
2. We made it out of legos, following the directions.
3. We programmed it and tried it out.
Afterward we got it checked and we had made a little mistake. First we had some problems but then we made a few changes like moving the motor and changing the rubber band. The robotoc arm picks up legos from a chute and drops them in 2 different bins. The procedure PLACE.ALL drops 2 legos in the first bin and one in the second bin. We made a start button and a stop button on the computer to control the robotic arm.

Below are the picture and the procedures.

TO PLACE.DISTANT
PICK.FROM.CHUTE
HAND.CLOSE
TALKTO "MOTORA
SETRIGHT
ON
WAITUNTIL [ ANGLE5 < -60 ]
OFF
HAND.OPEN
END

TO PLACE.LOCAL
PICK.FROM.CHUTE
HAND.CLOSE
TALKTO "MOTORA
SETRIGHT
ON
WAITUNTIL [ANGLE5 < -50]
OFF
HAND.OPEN
END

TO PICK.FROM.CHUTE
TALKTO "MOTORA
SETLEFT
ON
WAITUNTIL [ANGLE5 > 0]
OFF
END

TO HAND.OPEN
TALKTO "MOTORB
SETLEFT
ONFOR 5
END

TO HAND.CLOSE
TALKTO "MOTORB
SETRIGHT
ONFOR 5
END

TO PLACE.ALL
PLACE.LOCAL
PLACE.DISTANT
PLACE.LOCAL
END

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