The entire month of March was spent on getting a working FitPC, that had all of the programs needed and could be updated. The updating problem mainly was caused by the operating system, Windows 7, since the newer version of Visual Studio required Windows 8 or above. It quickly became apparent that there would be no way to use this particular FitPC. Eventually, a functioning FitPC was found and progress could begin on the programming for the robot and the Kinect. During this month, the original robot Robophilo did not get much action since there was no way to program it. By the end of March, a work station was set up with the FitPC and the Kinect and progress was being made on the program.

The project started out with picking and choosing a humanoid robot that would successfully mirror physical inputs put into a Kinect sensor. The robot chosen was the Robophilo, the robot came in a kit and was assembled into a working state by February 25th 2016. Progress on the program for the Kinect was slow since two of the FitPC’s were defective or could not be updated. By the end of February, the Robophilo robot was still sitting the way it was on February 25th as we determined whether or not to add servo motors to the wrist joints.