Commotion About Motion

So.  There’s obviously a bit of a problem with the movement.  It’s either moving too fast and coming apart or too slow and not getting to the mark in time.  I see two potential solutions to this issue.  I could try gearing the motor, so that it can spin like crazy, but not move the paddle quite so wildly.  Or, I can try using the more precise controls and tell it exactly how many degrees to rotate, rather than telling it to move left or right until I tell it to stop.

I don’t know which one of those has a higher probability of working…

The gears would be easier, since it’s mostly a reconfiguration of the existing robot.  The rotation angle method would require calibrating the paddle to determine what angle represents a sweep from top to bottom of the screen.

Maybe I should try to solve the disappearing paddle problem first and see if that makes things better.