This week was our first meeting for Winter Quarter 2017. Over break, we contacted members of last year’s team who built the original Rover 6 robot for help on our copy. After receiving instructions over break, we reconfigured our second Rover 6 in this week’s meetings. In addition, we were able to name the 3 6-wheeled chassis, “Carlorado”, as we …

This weeks last meetings had us working on the development of the Rover5 platform. We reverse-engineered the existing model, and built up a second- however the wiring posed a challenge. It was unclear about the orientation of the robot chassis (front/back) due to the design of the kit. This led to some issues when drilling the holes in the laser-cut …

This week’s meeting had us catching up over the breaks we took for midterms and holidays. The main focus of this meeting was securing the component box that holds the IOIO and Motor Controller to the third six-wheeled robot. We had new equipment after a PO came in, and with the use of the clamps and safety equipment we got …