The goal of this project was to create a semi-autonomous Buster using Infento's pro kit provided by Miami EdTech. The Buster alone is a small but fun form of short transportation. The semi-autonomous aspect is a feature added to the Buster where whenever the vehicle gets close to an object it will make progressive louder beeps.

There were two main teams, the engineering team and the programming team. The engineering team's main focus was to complete the build of the buster while the programming team's focus was on creating the code for the semi-autonomous feature. I was on the engineering team, and we decided to break up into three groups to work on different parts of the build and then put the three pieces together when we grouped up again. We decided to work asynchronously so that we could be time efficient with the build.

I was on the team that built the base (Part B) of the Buster, this piece connected the front wheels with the back and also had the steering wheel and seat. After finishing this step moved on to putting the three pieces together. "Finishing" the build the first time only took 20 percent of the overall time in making it, the rest of the time was spent on fixing issues we encountered while attempting to ride it. 

Issues resolved with the team:

• Belt skipping/loosing whenever ridden

• Oversized pieces scrapping the wheels

• Realigning mistaking aligned parts

After the engineering team completed the buster the programming team attached the semi-autonomous feature. There are sensors on the left and right of the vehicle to detect if an object is close by. When an object is closed the device informs the user with progressively louder beeping. This feature helps prevents crashes that may occur as a result of the user not being aware of an incoming object.