Week 5- 3/4/19

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This week our goal is to finally complete the figure 8 challenge and start on something new. Today when we started for some reason, our robot was completed out of control. Instead of going forward, or doing the specific movements we programmed, the robot would spin in circles by itself. For awhile we thought it was something wrong with the motors, we even took it apart and fixed one of the axles on the wheels. Nothing worked! we finally asked one of the seniors in our class for help and of course, they found the issue. For some reason the coding website had some issue working and we had to take certain steps to reset it.

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