STONY POINT HS -- ROUND ROCK ISD

PLTW - PRINCIPLES OF ENGINEERING

Vex Cookie Topper

Project 3.1.7B VEX and RobotC
Santiago Maya, Jose Mireles, Erik Hernandez
5/3/15

ABSTRACT
In this project our objectives were very simple. To create a Vex Machine that will
automatically place hershey kisses on top of cookies coming by. We accomplished
everything accordingly. We are not supposed to interfere with it at all , we are supposed to
let the machine do everything.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Design Brief
Pictures of Final Solution
RobotC Code for Final Solution
Results and Conclusions
Appendix

DESIGN BRIEF
Client Company:

Stony Point

Target
Consumer:

Cookie Company's

Problem
Statement:

It takes too long and costs too much to

pay a certain individual to place a
hershey atop a cookie.

Design
Statement:

We are going to build a machine that

automatically moves cookie and places
a hershey kiss on top of it.

Constraints:

Machine must operate automatically,

time, cost

Pictures of Final Solution

ROBOTC CODE FOR FINAL SOLUTION

task main()
{
startMotor (port2, 20); //start motor one moving at 20 speed
wait (1.5);
//wait 1 second and a half
stopMotor (port2);
//stop Motor 1
wait (2);
//wait 2 seconds

startMotor (port3, 20);

//start motor 2 at 20 speed
wait (1);
//wait 1 second
stopMotor (port3);
//stop motor 2
startMotor (port2, 20);
//start motor 1 at 20 speed
wait(1.5);
//wait 1 second and a half
stopMotor (port2);
// stop motor 1
}

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS

All objectives were accomplished accordingly. Some suggestions may be to include more
project to be ready for the marble sorter. Also maybe increasing the time on some
projects as they may have been harder. This project could spread onto engineering
programs all across the world. Initially our project was going all sorts of directions but then
we figured out how to program it using older projects. We learned how to manage our
time and further deepened our information on controlling motors.

APPENDIX

2 POTENTIAL PHYSICAL SKETCHES

Time

Cost

Effort

Size

RESULTS

Santi

10

Erik

Jose

*1-3, 1 meaning bad, 2 good, 3 great-(For example, 1 for effort, too hard to build*