Days 29 & 30: Wiring Weekend

First of all, I apologize for not putting a post up last night.  I got home late and forgot to grab pictures off the camera before leaving and thought that a blog post without pictures might be a bit boring.

Anyway, today was our big weekend of wiring the robot.  After countless man-hours of work put in by many dedicated team members, the practice robot wiring is complete and the competition robot is half-way complete.  We are still waiting on some components to mount on the comp robot electronics board before we can finish wiring.

Laying down wires.

The practice robot's electronics board.

On Sunday, we were able to successfully test all of the speed controllers and relays on the practice robot.

Machining is coming along well too.  The gears for the gearboxes are almost done being lightened and we are sending out many parts to anodize in the morning.

The programming and controls team has been hard at work.  We have put together joysticks for the control board and have worked to put provisions into the code for the control board.