Space, Image & Sound: 005
During the past two weeks, Nicholas and I have a had a few triumphs with the code and a few crashes. I'm really lucky that he is so switched on when it comes to this kind of stuff because there were a few times where he was typing out some pretty high level stuff. Far past my level of knowledge. As the team captain, I've really tried to play support for both Hayden and Nick. I've set out time frames and soft due dates for each of them. Nick and I both made the decision to switch from arduino UNOs, to 101's. The 101's have intel chips and gyros on board so we wouldn't have to use auxiliary gyros.... this ended costing us a lot of time and about $150 because they didn't work at all like we had hoped.... every time we tried to run our code, the board crashed because we were recording data and sending it simotaneously and these "new" "great" boards couldn't handle it. This is one of the current problems with Arduinos... there is never enough documentation on the more obscure uses of them and way too much on the really obvious uses. Maybe over time there will be more and more documentaion on the more out there uses. All that said, we switched back to the UNOs with the exterior gyros and everything is running perfectly. I'm in charge of all the soldering next week, so that's what's on the forecast. Hayden has been working really hard on fabricating all of the rings so that the spin is perfect.











