figured out motor inconsistency was due to power issue
need to figure out how much power (v & i) the nodemcu needs to power the logic board and also be able to supply power for the motors
started testing wifi connection with python server
was able to send one message from python server to nodemcu’s builtin led light
tested latency and experimented on how to improve it
able to send multiple bytes in less than 1s to nodemcu (previous tests used strings and took ~6s to send)
experimented with simple socket server system with one server and 2 clients
designed communication structure and decided to send messages to clients separately as opposed to broadcasting to reduce amount of data being sent at a time
was able to send different messages to different clients
worked on design report
progress is on track
will continue to work on power issue and test cars
will soon test sending messages through socket server to cars to move motors