4: Tuesday, April 1st

In class today, we worked on the back of our Voltera Punk Console test circuit. We calibrated the ink and finished the printing process on the backside. In the latter part of class, we outlined our car design (and the technicalities that compose the car itself, as pictured below), observing how we would utilize Ackermann steering and use the motor in the back. We realized that the front wheels control the steering / direction, and the back wheels control the speed (with the motor), so we will be sure to take these into account when coding. 

We decided which motors to use, and we landed on one motor per car to have RDW. The back wheels would steer at different speeds as well, so the car can turn properly. We figured out how the technicalities of the car would work, such as what the code would do (how fast the motors are going and the servo steering) and that the servo would steer through a mechanical linkage. We will code using Arduino.