Castle Crasher - Lesson 4 - Optical Sensor

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Hey all,

Making my first run teaching a robotics course, having a great time. The students and I finished up the Sense and Sweep challenge by coding the robot to utilize the distance sensor.

We’re moving on to Lesson 4: Creating Algorithms, and the lesson materials have you mounting the optical sensor near the distance sensor with some 90 degree brackets. I went ahead and did that, but the buckyball does not fit under the sensor to be detected when mounted this way. Is the intent to have students design a better way to mount the sensor, or am I missing something about how to correctly use this sensor?

The videos that follow in the lesson materials demonstrate how to use the sensor, but I see it is mounted in place of the distance sensor, facing forward.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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Hey David,

Can you send pictures of how you mounted the optical sensor? Please also include a buckyball under the sensor. So we can take a look to see what may happened.

Additionally as a PD+ all access user, you can book a 1-on-1 session with us. So we can help you out in a video call.