August 7 & 10

Fully wired new rover including unintentionally learning how to make a motor smoke 💥. Tested all new pieces out and made a program so that every subsystem is controllable from my keyboard

The final test day is Wednesday afternoon which is pretty concerning since I just got every part to work and now I need to make it autonomous but just got to believe. 

Both of these days where pretty lazy but all of Friday was spent wiring everything. The first new thing I tested was the pivot and I didn’t realize that the intake motor would hit the corner so I kept trying to turn it and it drew so many amps that it started to smoke and got incredibly hot. But I just shaved down the chassis and that fixed it. Everything else including the intake and flywheel motors were fine but then the breakout board didn’t work. This was because an aluminum chip had fallen onto the chip on the board and shorted it so I just switched it out.

Today was spent troubleshooting errors and really testing everything out with the new wiring. A couple of the problems I faced were because I hadn’t stripped some wires enough so that the splitters I used would work. Also that some wires weren’t long enough so I used extenders. I also used CodeX to help me write some code so that I could control everything from my computer manually.