Day 3

Electric snowmobile taking over our work space.

Ben bench testing the boost converters
and Alden working on the GPR.

Went to work this morning to make sure that we were still able to at least drive the robot, which took a couple of hours until I figured out that motor enable wires were not connected right.  Sooo glad we are able to drive else it would be a long 3 weeks of doing not a whole lot!

The electric snowmobile that was taking up half our work area was gone by the afternoon, which was nice.  Hopefully we will be using one to survey where we want the robot to go when we drive it through the clean air sector.

We believe the cause of frying the 24v power supply was due to having the boost converter in the circuit and having the program cable connected to the power board upon the started up.  So while Ben bench test all 5 boost converters to make sure they are all working as expected I am giving the Cool Robot chassis a bit of a face lift by re-gluing the center support, which was loose and re-taping all of the top edges of the box.

The working progress of robot chassis touch up.