wed + thurs

quick recap of wednesday: we stayed till 9, got the board all wired up and functional and lovely. tues night judy and karlin went to the los altos team and got us a 40 amp circuit breaker which is gold and shiny. we did drilling and wire cutting and clamp smushing and all sorts of lovely things. the board was functioning... we attached motors to make sure all of our wiring was functional and stuff downloaded and it was good.

thurs: instead of squashing the tether cable in there, we figured out how to attach the radios, so now we are sending signals more like we will in the actual competition. we (aka sherri) learned about debouncing limit switches and got thoroughly confused. but anyhow, we knew what we had to do and mary soldered and put together the circuit for our other limit switch. erin didn't freak out too much when we saw the board, but wants it to be prettier. build is going to put a potientometer on the arm so that the yet-t0-be-decided driver has distinct analog values and it just makes coding so much easier. yeah.

we talked about SUPER-SCARY autonomous. two major types - defense and offense. our defense strategy is pretty much just to go at an angle, turn, forward, back, forward back, until 15 sec is up. unfortunately we are going to have to use a timer. offense: go straight/angled for x seconds, hang keeper. (We hope!)

and that's my condensed, what-i-can-remember-in-my-stressed-out-state version of the week.