Week of 4/27

This week, I had a lot of success on the progress of my rover. At the start of the week, I completely reassessed my current progress to figure out what I needed to do to get the receiving PCB working. After checking both the soldering and schematic numerous times, I could not find a visible issue, but still, it would not work. I decided that as a final attempt to get the rover to work, I would take a new board and solder it to see if there was any difference or possible mistakes from my first.

Working PCB

Old PCB

After deciding the was the next step, I grabbed all of the pieces I needed, gathering the mounts for the Metro Mini, motor driver, and then all of the pins for the receiver and other features. After, I moved on to soldering carefully, making sure all were done with accuracy. Then once it was done, it was time to finally test to see if it would work. I attached all of the necessary connections and plugged in the batteries. To my shock, It finally worked! After all of the tests, it was simply some small issue with the PCB preventing it from working. Now, I am completely done with the design of the Rover, all I have left to do is make sure all of the parts are correctly attached together, and I will move on to one final project.

Working PCB

Old PCB