Week 12 - Spartan Superway

This week, I had all the motors and drivers soldered and began testing them. Since we were no longer using the old motors, I decided to also take one of the encoder boards from the rear and soldered it to the new motors. Once this was done, I wired everything up the Arduino and began testing it using a fade function being applied to the input. As you can see in the video below, the motors and drivers work perfectly and are ready to be used in the new bogie design. For next week, I will have both these motors in the previous pod car design so we can see if the extra torque helps with the longevity of the motors.