This week was much of the same as last week, with some much better news, and some much worse. I will start off with the good news. Scott figured out what was wrong with the hall effect sensors. At first there were a bunch of micro shorts, as the endmill we used to mill the board was fairly dull, and we didn’t know to scotchbrite it to remove the conductive fuzz.

This week was what we less affectionatly like to call integration hell, or when multiple parts of the project have to start interacting with one another. In this case, we started to run the piston off of the battery and custom PCB. This cause a few problems that we still have to iron out. Battery Woes # The custom battery that we designed is great, except it only goes as far as the actual cells inside of it.