Class #9

Back at the grind! We continued with the construction of our bot today, focusing predominantly on the layout of the entire chassis, as well as how the components will all fit into our design. One of the most time consuming tasks of today's class was drilling holes in our main deck to allow the deck itself to sit flush against the aluminium chassis, I had to toy around a lot with the size and positioning of the hole to ensure a snug fit. Once those adjustments were made, Renee, our project manager soldered the wire leads onto our DC motors which will be driving the four wheels of the bot and we then mounted the motors to the frame and attached the wheels to the motors.....we now have a rolling chassis. What was even better was that during all of the fabrication that took place today, Mike, our programmer, had coded the wireless PCB components and DC motor controller which allowed us to lay some components on top of the deck and with a DC adapted we were able to give the bot its first test drive....SUCCESS!! The main troubleshooting issue we had to address at the end of the class was that we discovered that our wheels were mounted backwards, and therefore tended to fall off, however we fixed all the wheels and the bot is now much sturdier.