Today we are reconvening after a summer away! Our overall goals for this year are to complete Enterprise as well as revamp this website and generally have a fantastic experience building, wiring...
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/welcome-back/
3/25 Software We rewrote the motor calibration script so that rather than driving the motors to a minimum and then manually setting the motors’ range of motions, we drive them to the minimum a...
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/motor-testing-and-documentation/
3/15 Mechanical We are currently finalizing CAD, and aim to begin routing out the foam after lunch.
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/finalized-cad/
3/12 Software We tested the RC and autonomous code to see if the motors were responding as we expected: -The rudder turned the correct direction under RC control, but the opposite direction under...
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/rc-and-autonomous-testing/
3/11 Software The software team has been able to test outside because there is no longer a lake outside the LPB! This is a short summary of what we’ve found: Happy things: GPS and wind sensors ...
3/10 Admin Using our very old electrical box, we built a new lighting system over the ORS workstation in the Large Project Building. We have named it Lampey the Lamp.
3/9 Electrical We ordered the ridiculous motor: http://www.zoro.com/i/G4455857/?whence It should arrive in about 3 days.
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/motor-order/
3/8 Mechanical The mechanical team is going to be spending their meeting today building a rolling boat stand for Enterprise. This means that we won’t have to carry it everywhere anymore!
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/rolling-stand-for-enterprise/
3/5 Electrical We are currently making the final decision about which linear actuation motor we want to purchase. Originally, we planned on going with this one: http://www.zoro.com/i/G2553293/...
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/linear-actuators/
3/4 Mechanical We can reduce our sail size now! We added grommets to the free edge of the sail so we can reattach the bottom boom and decrease our sail area by varying amounts. Hopefully this mak...
https://olinroboticsailing.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/changeable-sail-size/