hax!

I've spent the last month largely working on code to integrate data from the new LIDAR unit on the robot for the competition next week. We finally got everything mounted and running on the new robot this week, and started testing. It worked great for static tests, but started to fail horribly once the bot was moving. Like the voltage fluctuation caused by the motors running was messing up the LIDAR hardware. Ugh.

So yesterday I hacked up a really ugly power filter... and it worked! (I think. The bot hasn't been free for too much testing yet.)



Yay for getting my hands dirty. This is a great lab, but they don't do much custom hardware. (I couldn't even find a third hand for the soldering, hence the horrible mess.) I miss the smell of machine oil.

T-2 days until we fly to Anchorage.