Week 9

Overall Progress

Accomplishments

Mechanical:

• Made Loading mechanism and mounted onto robot.
• Fixed issues with latching mechanism not having enough power to unlatch the arm when pulled back.

Electrical:

• Re-made electrical board with final components, cleaned up layout.

Software:

• Controls for Wheels fully implemented, and driving responds to user input. Driving fully done.

Challenges

Mechanical:

• Dropped the robot once. Had to reprint some parts and rebuild some components.

Electrical:

• Lacking proper connectors for encoders

Software:

• Had some bugs with driving and encoder code.