Over the past few days, we have completed many of our remaining tasks to get the project completed by April 25th. For starters, we finally have the correct motors in place for our drive train, and have the chains correctly laid out to the point that we shouldn't need to reconfigure them again.
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| The correct drive train motors mounted and wired |
We have also completed most of the major wiring to for devices such as the motors, motor controllers, battery, switches, indicator light, and the Arduino motor controller.
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| All the major components wired and placed |
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| Emergency and main power switches, and emergency light mounted and wired |
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| Indicator light operational |
Now that we have the discs cut and hubs put on them, we can now finalize the mounting solution for them. The mount we used before was too flimsy, and was difficult to mount the motor to. The mount we have now houses a compound gearbox because the motor we chose that would have enough power, runs too fast. This compound gearbox puts the discs spinning at an effective speed. The mount we have now also uses angle aluminum from the Gears Ed. kit to allow for a more stable platform, and reduce the flimsiness the previous mount had.
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| Compound Gearbox |
Over the next few days, I would like to finalize the hopper's position, and create the channeling plows on the front for the ball collector.
