Wednesday 18 / 05 / 2016
Let’s start with last night, we did some late night prototyping and improved the ball mechanism. We moved the battery under the board instead of above to lower the center of gravity. And removed 1 battery (2 was overkill). We’ll upload a video later today.
Meanwhile, the other half of the group spend some time on the back-up project (now a 2nd project). The RC with the markers attached to a spinning cross making random drawings.
Now lets talk about what we did today. We removed the “anti-flip disc” from the ball mechanism and made some new custom wheels. It seems that the center of gravity is low enough so that the robot flips but always lands back on its “feet”. Luckily we attached all the components to the board this time.
Tomorrow we are going to wire up the bluetooth module and test out the remote controls with an app.