almost all of today was spent discussing and weighing different suspension designs and drive train implementations, culminating us in finally buying some parts and basically finishing out our $1000 budget from the start of the program to the end of this week. we settled on the 4 independent legs early, so the options were between:

• mounting the motor on the chassis on the same pivot point as the leg itself
• mounting the motor on the chassis and using a u-joint articulated axle
• mounting the motor high up on the leg and using a belt drive
  eventually we arrived on that last option because the other ones didnt really pose a benefit that was worth the complexity they would introduce (especially the first one)
  towards the end of the day, we ordered all the parts we needed to install it hopefully over tomorrow and wednesday
  also! we finished printing the finalized(…) wheel design so now we have four rigidly attached and bead-locked wheels+tires!! turns out the robot is like significantly faster than we thought so uhhh throttle limit is gonna have to be pretty low for a bit.

below is a sample of our mad drawings (mostly mine 😭) trying to figure out how the hell this thing is gonna work