Hey, folks. Sorry about barging in and all. I've got quite the predicament on my hand. I'm trying to program a robotic car with two motors (left and right), and 3 sensors (2 limitswitches, 1 bumpswitch). Using only these, I am to design a car that moves forward and back for a set time, and keeps going in a loop UNTIL either the limitswitches or the bumpswitch is pressed. If the limitswitches press, it immediately moves in the opposite direction (the limitswitches are on either the front or back of the vehicle), and if the bumpswitch is pressed, the task ends altogether. Is there a specific code I'm missing?

Whenever I try adding a timer-based code (to make a loop), I run into problems. I also can't seem to get the limitswitches or bumpswitches to correlate with the tasks properly (yes, everything's plugged in and powered at the right places).

If I could get some help, that'd be great.

What code have you got so far? The more information you give, the more help you're likely to get.

Bear in mind that I'm absolutely new to programming. TT__TT

task main()
{ //Program begins, insert code within curly braces
untilBump(bumpSwitch);
if(limitSwitch1==1){
startMotor(leftMotor,67);
startMotor(rightMotor,-67);}
else{
startMotor(leftMotor,67);
startMotor(rightMotor,-67);
wait(1);
stopMotor(leftMotor);
stopMotor(rightMotor);
wait(1);
startMotor(leftMotor,-67);
startMotor(rightMotor,67);
wait(3);
stopMotor(leftMotor);
stopMotor(rightMotor);
}
}

The number of times I've tried using timers and other limitswitches has been fail-tastic. I've gone back to using a single limitswitch, but right now, all it's doing is following the wait programs for the motors. It's ignoring anything else.

Ummm, it appears to me that this isn't RobotC code. Are you sure that your're using RobotC? This looks more like NXC to me.

Oh, BTW, when posting code, please put it in between the



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