Team Four/Journal

Day One Today is one of those days where everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. In lab we promptly shorted out our battery (luckily we had properly hooked up the fuse) and right before finishing code for checkpoint two we accidentally plugged something somewhere it wasn't supposed to go and released the magic blue smoke from our motor controller. ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻

The end of the day is starting to look up though. We have most of the critical modules of our robot SoldidWorksed, as of right now we're in the process of adding in the specifics such motor mounts and standoffs. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow we will have everything finalized so we can cut out the relevant parts out of acrylic in Edgerton. We found these amazing motors that fulfill all of the requirements for operating our hopper and ball collection system, and put in an order for it. It should arrive sometime between Friday and Wednesday.

Tomorrow aside from lecture we plan on replacing our motor control and getting checkpoint two to work before leaving. I am also going to Edgerton to get training so I can use their laser cutter.