Throughout this week we spent a lot of time preparing for the interim demo. As stated last week, I had some issues with the motor control board we bought last week, so for the demos we used a lower power substitute to simply get the wheels spinning to show for demo. I have ordered a new motor board that when it arrives should fulfill our needs. We are also considering pivoting to using a robot kit for the turning instead of the turret from the suggestion of Tamal, as that will be much faster and more reliable to implement, but we are still doing some research.
Over the next week, once the motor board arrives we hope to start doing some integration with the camera as well as start building our structure now that the pvc has arrived.
In terms of verification and validation, the main tests relating to the motors will simply be running more launch tests once we have the structure finalized and the new motor board arrives. We have already seen in our preliminary tests that the launch seems promising, so once it is finalized and further testing will be able to verify whether or not we can meet the requirements. We will also have to conduct tests on the turning and targeting once everything has been fully integrated.