Today we got some smaller H-bridges and wired them up to the DC motors in the tanks. originally, we tried to wire in an inverter so that we would only need one pin for changing the direction of the car, but we kept on frying them, even after we hooked them up to voltage regulators. So, since we have extra pins, we have decided to forgo the finicky inverters. Quick and dirty, and the professor says...
Today we also wired up the other car and joystick, and got some new nodes as well (we still need one more firefly, but we got two today). We continued working on getting the cars to detect which has won the race using light sensors, and were also working on making the cars go backwards. Also, the broken car is now soldered back together.
Still to do:
-build end gate
-program end gate node
-finish hooking up light sensors
-get communication between cars and end gate
-debug some of the wiring for making the tanks go forward/backward
It seems like we didn't make much progress today even though we spent a lot of time in the lab. We still have a lot to do...
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