[vcf-midatlantic] Workshop February 11&12, 2017 Wrap-up

[Evan Koblentz]

> Evan worked on his Lego/Apple BASIC robot as he prepares for TCF.

The robot broke in my bag. I spent a couple of hours figuring out how to 
rebuild it. There were extra parts...

Then I had to adapt the code for a different slot. I used slot 4 on my 
//e at home, but the Laser 128 uses slot 7. There are two places in the 
program where this is indicated. One place, in the Lego-provided 
initialization routine, is easy: it just says S=(#). The other place is 
a memory address that Dan R. determined and explained to me a few weeks 
ago. There's a very simple equation to change it for different slots, 
which I completely forgot to do until another hour went by. It dawned on 
me while I took a bathroom break. :)

After that I started working on improving the robot code itself. Ian, 
Google, and (especially) Adam helped me a lot. I have to plow through 
some more BASIC glitches but I'll get it done sooner or later.