Hello again!

See, I post blogs often now, haha. Did you get chocolates from someone on valentines? I didn't (I understand this is a horrible way to start a blog).

EDIT: I forgot to take photos of the angel ring. Ill add them in the near future.

After months of work, the angel ring is finished (it actually concluded around December but I forgot to make a blog at that time). It really was a long path that our team needed to take. Both I and Morita made their original angel ring in KiCad, but since Morita is older and more knowledgeable than me, he was used, as we only had a few weeks, and taking risks would be silly. We needed to find a suitable sensor that is small enough and could be programmed by Arduino, and we also needed sets of LEDs so that the sensor could detect the color it is seeing easier. To be specific, 16 sensors and 16 LEDs. Soldering all 32 of them was tedious and making the program was extremely puzzling, and all of our teammates needed to stay working on it even when the class ended. I can say we were determined, as we would deliberately increase the number of classes we would take just to get this angel ring working.

Mid-December, and it was finally finished. Compared to our last one with only four color sensors that were barely even working, it was definitely way better. Last year, 90% of the time, our robot would ignore the white line which was one of the leading causes of us losing matches, but now, 90% of the time our robot detects the white line and never crosses it.

However, there are still flaws. Due to both of our robots having the same program of constantly attacking, both robots tend to push each other, forcing one of the robots to cross the line.

We are planning on making one of our robots act as a goalkeeper to prevent this, which is going to be difficult, but our team never gives up.

Thanks for reading :)