CLASS+8

= JULY 21, 2011 =

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During today's class Richard continued working on the website and Amanda continued with the programming. Andrew, Chris and I also continued with the planning of our ROV. We completed some more sketches and began to assemble our chassis. We cut the Sentra to the desired with and selected placement for the wheels. Because we want to mount our battery in the center of the base (dropped down and attached) we need to build some height for our wheels so we have clearance underneath. We drilled holes in the Sentra and attached wheels onto aluminum strips. We overlooked the fact that he entire chassis needed to be almunium and needed to rethink our plan by adding more aluminum. This required us to rethink the positioning of our battery and some other elements but in the end we were not set far behind. We also modified the mount for our rotating arm.