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With the actual board, we had problems getting the crimping to be secure. We also had to short the emergency stop (I believe this was due to new software being used this year...?) before our robot could work. But it (eventually) worked! And we got a checkoff! And then it stopped working! So we replaced the fuse (from the power to the board), as well as soldered the insides of the new clips so that the attachment was better. | With the actual board, we had problems getting the crimping to be secure. We also had to short the emergency stop (I believe this was due to new software being used this year...?) before our robot could work. But it (eventually) worked! And we got a checkoff! And then it stopped working! So we replaced the fuse (from the power to the board), as well as soldered the insides of the new clips so that the attachment was better. | ||
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* Since one of our motors were initially wired backwards, our ground and power do not follow the standard color convention. We should rewire this. | * Since one of our motors were initially wired backwards, our ground and power do not follow the standard color convention. We should rewire this. | ||
Revision as of 03:00, 4 January 2011
January 3rd, 2011
First time writing the date this year, and I (Piper) got it right! W00! Anyway, our team began Maslab in an extremely sleep-deprived state, which made things very amusing. (I was incredibly giggly...)
Problems we ran into with our code: our "Hello, World!" statement won't print without being in an infinite loop. We're not entirely sure why, but this problem didn't carry over to our Drive class (which we used to get our second checkoff - the robot drove forward for three seconds). This is a good thing, because interrupting the infinite loop didn't work, and we can't make infinity last only three seconds :). After a little debugging, our code worked just fine :D.
With the actual board, we had problems getting the crimping to be secure. We also had to short the emergency stop (I believe this was due to new software being used this year...?) before our robot could work. But it (eventually) worked! And we got a checkoff! And then it stopped working! So we replaced the fuse (from the power to the board), as well as soldered the insides of the new clips so that the attachment was better.
Things we need to fix tomorrow
- Since one of our motors were initially wired backwards, our ground and power do not follow the standard color convention. We should rewire this.
