FireBot: It Begins

Today, we had few guidelines. Basically, it was a free day to finish up whatever we were behind on. But ultimately, we were preparing for the FireBot competition.
With four rooms separated by 14 inch walls, the idea is to extinguish a candle that has been placed randomly in one of the rooms.
The field was built just today, so we got some time to test on the real deal.

Everette and I added a platform on our bot for an extinguishing device, and hastily built a fan using a servo and whatever parts we had to emulate a fan. (we used big gears)

Apparently no video of that fan fanning. It was adorable.

The fan didn't seem very effective. We'll probably go with a thing that pats out the flame instead. More worrying is the fact that our flame sensing function wasn't working out this time. I'm just glad the line sensing seems reliable.
Everette said he wanted to know the code better, so I plan to explain it online to him. He also took the bot home with him so he could make whatever improvements he wanted. That's good. I'm glad he feels confident enough to do so.