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The Building Beasts met with Idaho Power again on February 8, 2023. Idaho Power has put POW through a cost-benefit analysis chart. This helped them determine POW would be a benefit to their customers. If Twin Falls didn't run for a day, during peak times, it would save their customers around $72,000.

Now they are taking POW to their legal team. The progress of POW depends on if Idaho Power has to open the license agreement with FERC to a full rework or amend it. The cost of doing a full license agreement negotiation could outweigh the benefits of POW at this time. The Building Beasts and Idaho Power are hoping they will allow an amendment.

In the last update (April 11, 2023), we received from Idaho Power, they informed us the POW button has been added to the 2024 budget. They hope to have it installed before April 1st, 2024.

Time to

Code

Imports

from pybricks.hubs import PrimeHub

from pybricks.pupdevices import Motor, ColorSensor, UltrasonicSensor, ForceSensor

from pybricks.parameters import Button, Color, Direction, Port, Side, Stop, Axis

from pybricks.robotics import DriveBase

from pybricks.tools import wait, StopWatch, multitask, run_task

#Lifty Settings Ella

lifty = Motor(Port.A,Direction.COUNTERCLOCKWISE,reset_angle=True)

#Dropper Settings Milo

drop_grab = Motor(Port.E,Direction.COUNTERCLOCKWISE,reset_angle=True)

2 Initializations

def drive(cm,pause): #Benjamin

drive_base.straight(cm * 10,wait=pause)

def backup(cm,pause): #Benjamin

drive_base.straight(-cm * 10,wait=pause)

Functions

#M08 Rolling Camera Milo

lights_off()

tail_left(250,90,True)

drive(17,True)

left_turn(90,True)

tail_right(250,135,True)

tail_reset(True)

#M09 Movie Set Luke

drive(3,True)

right_turn(90,True)

drive(20.5,True) #15,18,19.5

right_turn(16,True) #10,15

lifty_down(200,180,True)

backup(16,True) #7,10

left_turn(30,True) #45

lifty_reset(True)

6. Comment to title the

code and say who wrote it.

5. Iteration comments to show

what we have changed in our code.

4 Robot

Mission Code

# Mission 4 Rolling Camera Part 1 written by Milo

Turn off the lights on the color sensor.

Back attachment turn left at 250 mm/s, for 90 degrees.

Drive forward 17 cm.

Left turn 90 degrees.

Back attachment turn right at 200 mm/s, for 135 degrees.

Back attachment reset to zero degrees.

# Mission 9 Movie Set written by Luke

Drive forward 3 cm.

Right turn 90 degrees.

Drive forward 20.5 cm.

Right turn 16 degrees.

Front attachment down at 200 mm/s, for 180 degrees.

Backup 16 cm.

Left turn 30 degrees.

Front attachment rest to zero degrees.

Every True in the code means that the command will finish before moving on to the next code. If it is False we add a while not statement that looks like this:

while not drop_grab.done() or not drive_base.done():

wait(10)

which means: that while the back attachment and the drive wheels haven't finished the last full motion in the command, wait to move on to the next command.