Science Olympiad (2016-2017) Electric Vehicle

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Hi, I’m a desperate high school student who is currently in Science Olympiad’s Electric Vehicle and I am currently using an arduino uno and a motor shield to program my electric vehicle. My vehicle has four dc motors connected to it and I am currently planning to use motor shield as if all four motors were a single motor because the purpose of the arduino is to get the vehicle to move certain intervals over a predetermined total distance. So far I think I’m heading on the right track but I need someone to please critique and edit my code because I keep getting error messages when verifying.

Thanks

Desperate High School Student

CODE:

void setup() {

// put your setup code here, to run once:

pinMode(3, OUTPUT);

pinMode(4, OUTPUT);

pinMode(5, OUTPUT);

pinMode(6, OUTPUT);

pinMode(7, OUTPUT);

pinMode(8, OUTPUT);

pinMode(9, OUTPUT);

pinMode(10,OUTPUT);

pinMode(11,OUTPUT);

}

void loop(){

digitalWrite(3, HIGH);

digitalWrite(4, HIGH);

digitalWrite(5, HIGH);

digitalWrite(6, HIGH);

digitalWrite(7,HIGH);

digitalWrite(8,HIGH);

digitalWrite(9,HIGH);

digitalWrite(10, HIGH);

digitalWrite(11, HIGH);

digitalWrite(12, HIGH);

digitalWrite(13, HIGH);

delay(10000000000);

digitalWrite(3,LOW);

digitalWrite(4,LOW );

digitalWrite(5, LOW);

digitalWrite(6, LOW);

digitalWrite(7,LOW);

digitalWrite(8,LOW);

digitalWrite(9,LOW);

digitalWrite(10, LOW);

digitalWrite(11 LOW);

digitalWrite(12, LOW);

digitalWrite(13, LOW);

delay(1000);

}

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Don’t you think that maybe the error messages would be important for someone to help diagnose the issue(s)??

and what’s up with

delay(10000000000);

10 billion milliseconds?

10 million seconds?

115.7 days?