On Monday the 8th, the team had our motor and spinning member mounted with lights, however the 3D printed shaft was simply too weak and broke off. We experienced more vibration than expected and have elected to make new rotating members out of an aluminum shaft. In the past week this was accomplished and we are currently ready to test again this Monday, fully mounted.

In our short lived test of our code, we were able to see some expected results. The code we were running would display just the letter ‘E’ at full speed and we began to see this develop before the rotating piece broke. With the lights attached to just the new aluminum shaft similar resemblance of success were seen.

The team is looking forward to testing the new rotating members further and to be able to demo our final prototype, more to come soon.