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Blog Report (2/5/24): Bhavesh, Sai, Rudra

We've accomplished many things since the course of the last blog written. We spent the whole day on Saturday working on attempting to fix and test the PID code for Intake of the robot. We encountered many hurdles and adversaries while trying to finish the PID. On Monday, Sai and I (Bhavesh) were investigating the issues involving the "dead" robo-rio. While we were investigating the issues, we learned more about the electrical circuiting of the robot and how to connect certain wires. When we finally finished our testing, we came to the conclusion that robo-io just isn't working and "re-aliving" it will be quite difficult. After that, Sai, Harry, and I spent the rest of our time trying to get Smart dashboard working and able to take our PID values. After some time, we finally managed to get the Smart dashboard to work and PID value inputs! Tomorrow, we might just do some further testing.

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