Day 17: Pointers in Functions | Joystick and Robot Car

Lab

The baud needed to be changed manually in the serial monitor to the correct baud set in Serial.begin, otherwise strange symbols like this would show up:

Once corrected, this is how it looked

Programming

Homework

Our homework was to get the robot car working and responding to the joystick. Once Anthony and I successfully did this, we took the robot for a walk down the hall.

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