Blog Week 8

I ended last week by milling the PCB for the Sumo Bot. I also soldered a couple of components on to the board.

Later in the week, Benji finished soldering the components. He then tested the system and it all worked.

Later in the week I continued working on the mechanical design. In that design, I realized that the board is too large for the position I put it on the Sumo Bot. After discussing with Miles and Andrew, I decided to make 2 smaller PCBs that stack on top of one another.

I also finished resin printing the electronics skeleton. I then designed the front camera mount which I printed.

After assembling, I realized that the front camera mount was inverted, so I reprinted it.

On Thursday, I re-did the strain relief in a more streamlined way. To do this, Miles came up with the idea to use the square brackets to mount a bolt for the carabiner to attach to.

After I installed this, I disconnected the tether to re-route the cables. Then I de-tangled as many thruster cables as I could.

On Wednesday, I cut the flat thruster guards.

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