Robot Speed Experiment:
After learning how to assemble the robot two weeks ago, last Fridays experiment involved working with the program to measure the distance the car travelled with certain timing power settings. The first task that we had was to measure the circumference of the wheel. Next, we had to put the robot next to a ruler in order to measure the distance that the robot traveled to compare it to the distance recorded by the program. For each setting of power and time we had to do three trials in order to compare each trial to one another. After, experimenting with three different settings and having three trials each setting we had to calculate the margin of error comparing the distance that we observed using the calculator and the distance that the program calculated.
Looking at the margin of error it seems that we made a mistake with the way we conducted the experiment. The mistake might have been where we put the front wheels of the robot and because of this we were not able to correctly measure the actual distance using the calculator. Our margins or error are pretty high throughout the experiment.