This week all of our new parts came recently. We spent most of the week as a team building our structure where we did a few test launches. Our new motor control board also came in this week, and it seems to be promising. I’m still debugging some of the software control, but I was able to connect to it and it is getting power, so it should work for us. I will be spending some more time the rest of this week debugging it and getting it working.
The main skills I’ve had to learn and brush up on throughout this project is 3d modeling/printing and motor control. I had done some 3d modeling in a different software, but I still had to review it and it is the first time I had actually 3d printed. I learned mostly through trial and error and well as online tutorials. I had also done some motor control in 349, but it was all on an STM, so this is my first time using a different platform for motor control. While the actual flow of coding is very similar, I have had to read lots of datasheets and use online tutorials to debug certain things.