Thursday, December 11, 2014

12/12/14

As of today, the due date (12/12/14) the robot is not operational. The missing piece is the code which will
allow us to control the robot via Xbox controller. Other than that there is nothing holding the robot 
back from being fully operational. It's disappointing that we weren't able to finish the project on time 
but things like this happen and it doesn't mean we can't finish it after the fact.

Wiring

Here we have the Arduino mounted to the chassis directly under the seat, on top of the Arduino is the Adafruit motor shield with all four CIM motors plugged in. In addition to the motor wires, the positive and negative battery wires are also plugged into the motor shield so we get 12V power instead of 5V from the Arduino.