This week, most of my time was spent finalizing electronic components on the boat. I spent an atrocious number of hours (7?) trying to debug our stepper motor set up before realizing that the Arduino Nano was broken. Because of time and based on the components we had access to, we pivoted to using an Arduino Uno with WiFi, so then I spent time making this transition happen. Additionally, I spent time finalizing the design of, cutting, and installing the spool – specifically, I designed it to support mounting the protoboards. Lastly, I’ve been working on figuring out a method for waterproofing the above water electronics. I didn’t get to spend as much time due to these hiccups on the code. Overall, I’m a little behind schedule, but no more than we have been over the last couple weeks. We got a little bit less ahead this week overall, so we’re doing greeaaaattttt! The only portion of the project that’s behind where I wanted to be come today is the image stitching. This will be a prime focus for me tomorrow, as I still want to improve it’s accuracy a bit more ahead of the demo.