This week I have mostly been working on getting the motors working. I spent a lot of the week first getting a proper connection, as the motors came with a very niche connector so I had to make a custom adapter for it. Also, after some more testing we realized that the flipsky motor board we borrowed seems to be dead. We were waiting on a battery charger for a while so we couldn’t fully test the board until recently, but after probing some of the power pins it seems that the board is receiving no power from either USB or the battery. Its possible the board is just bricked and may just need to be reflashed with new firmware, but I think its more likely that there is some component on the board that’s dead. We’ll try more repair efforts next week, but we’ll likely just need a replacement control board, which we still have the budget for. For demo, we plan to use some manual drivers just to get a launch going.
For next week we will mostly be focusing on demo, but we also will get our replacement permanent parts installed and start working on the turning component as well.