sunday

so on friday we got the new board material to lighten up the robot... it's pretty much just air with some plastic partitions, but we have been assured that it is strong. so we had to move everything from one board to the other and drilling and washers and such stuff. but finally we had an assembled board and then today we checked that everything worked. that one speed controller is still finicky, but should be okay. we can switch it out if necessary.

we went to ideo and tested the arm code and started to lengthen the transmission leads because they are too short and realized (again) that one of the radios is finicky but then i think we changed the cable and it was okay. the arm code works and erin and caroline were changing the code so that you could move the arm again if it hits the switch.

we did some other stuff too but that's about all i remember. build was punching some serious holes into that metal and it was pretty cool to watch. we are cutting our wire length as much as possible because every little bit of wire is a little bit of weight we cut back on! =)