The Colorful Chicken Challenge

In the second quarter of my college career, I took my first computer engineering class called Engineering Practice (ECE160). In this class, I learned how to wire a breadboard with buttons, LED lights, and more using an Arduino kit. I also learned how to program in the Arduino coding style within that IDE. The final project for this class was a competition called the Colorful Chicken Challenge, in which each team was given a bare robot and had to program an autonomous mode and a remote controlled mode in order for the robot to sort multiple different colored chickens.

Our team used the Arduino IDE to program a PlayStation 2 remote control to manually turn the robot left and right, move it forwards and backwards, and spin in both directions. We then used precise calculations and timing in order for the autonomous section to pick up a colored robot and drop it in the allotted hole. In the end, our team won the entire competition due to this hard work. Below are files explaining the full rules of the Challenge, as well as all of our documentation throughout the project. Credit for many parts of this project to my partners Hailey Hoover and Tintin Ren.