I don’t have much to show for it again (well, I at least have the image below), but I have largely focused on learning how to use FreeCAD. Our design considerations are finished (see team post for details, also my personal relevant points are rehashed below), so now I want to port at least something over to CAD to have for our presentation this week.
We are keeping the two motor per arm implementation. While our emphasis is not on being agile anymore, it is still more desirable to get over rubble that will be very likely present than to be limited to what our wheels can get over.
We have moved away from needing to care as much about size, as our use case does not necessitate it to be that small anymore. However, we still need to be mindful of cost. But, this gives us room to have a larger battery, and overall better equipment.
We are not doing fancy things like having the robots attach or jump anymore, as cool as that would be, it is not feasible for our MVP (and I’m not a MechE)