Tuesday, November 26

Yesterday, all four of us met and worked on SolidWorks and a motor test.  We made a test car out of cardboard and our wheels, casters, and motors. The following video is a short clip of the car going straight.



From this test we determined that the motors that we bought are not going to have enough torque to drive the car.  The motors get stuck and need a push to get spinning when starting from rest.  Because of this we ordered new motors which should have more than enough torque and RPMs to drive the car. 
Because of the new motors, we had to update our SolidWorks brackets that we made previously to fit these newer, bigger motors.  They have the same basic shape only bigger.
Today, we tried to work on the code for the car however my arduino board is currently having some problems which made it unable to be used.  We will start working on the code shortly.
We worked for about 3 hours yesterday and an hour today.