Overall, the prototype and the competition went well. Aside from a very strange abnormality that we encountered as we were setting up for the competition, everything at the event went much smoother than expected. The abnormality that was just mentioned was a problem with the communication between the distance sensor and the Arduino. The sensor was reading random distances that ranged from 0 to 163 inches, thus triggering the program and the machine at random times. We are not quite sure why it happened, but we especially don't know how we fixed it. All of a sudden it just decided to work perfectly. After that point, everything was smooth sailing.
During the event we had a lot of people who seemed very interested in our project, and a few that spent a lot of time talking to us about how we can take it farther. Although we did not make the finals, we were proud of how we did since we received a shocking number of votes. We had little expectations for the event, but we left feeling very good about ourselves and the final outcome of the project itself.
Below is a video of the finalized project in action
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