mini devlog #5 lots of issues today:

1st; ran into issues with transceiver. when the program ran in arduino ide the esp32 just wasn’t able to command the motors to do anything, turns out I set the wrong baud rate and wasted an hour of my life. there also seems to be an issue with signal termination whenever I plug in a fourth motor into the CAN chain the program stops working from the esp 32(anyone with experience with this please help). this is the biggest problem I will need to solve.

2nd; I suck at soldering so all the joints started to bend and break off, I will need to design a better case for the xdrive mini boards so the solder of the xt60 connector doesn’t take the brunt of the flexing force. will need to re-solder most of these joints in order to fix the cold solder joints from before. at some point some magic smoke started coming out from one of the boards, no clue what its from but it solved itself and everything worked after re-plugging power supply. Should probably investigate further but i didn’t see any obvious shorts and im too lazy. Thanks for reading <3