tuesday + DRIVING ROBOT!

hello!

so. the robot ships a week from today. that's the scary/AHHH FREAK OUT NOW news. however, the robot drives. the way we want it to. there were some issues, we flipped some cables, some wires. it's all good now; things were just wired badly.

one issue we haven't looked into yet is the fact that when you stop the joystick/bring it back to center, there is a lag in one of the motors, causing it to turn in that direction. apparently, this is a known issue in the master code (?) for this year, so hopefully there is a simple solution.

jessa explained interrupts to us and tomorrow we are going to dive into the details.

we have a schedule that we have all (aka those of us who were there when we agreed: sherri, mary, erin) agreed to stick to for the remainder of this week, regardless of whether judy/karlin/jessa can be with us. we completed everything that we physically could from today's list. we couldn't debug wing/arm code since we don't HAVE wings/arm connected.

there was some wiring, soldering, clampsmushing, ziptying and other lovely things while we had the robot. the electronics cover goes on top of the board, so zip ties need to go UNDER it.

the robot needs a name. badly.

and the dolly has sharp edges... don't ram into it.

we need to have EVERYTHING done by friday so sat/sun/mon/tues is TESTESTESTESTEST. PRACTICEPRACTICEPRACTICE.

we also need to/already did change the deadbands for making driving more intuitive and less really-big-deadband-and-then-it-jumps-crazy.

yay! IT MOVES. IT'S ALIVE. IT NEEDS A NAME.