2/26/2014

   This week I worked on finishing mounting all of the electronics and ran into a few problems. One of the first was with the H bridge motor controller, but once I talked to a few of the other students I realised I was hooking it up wrong and now it is working correctly. Another problem I had was with the shipping of the metal detector. It took 20 days for the package to arrive and when it got to my house I opened it to find only the receipt inside and no circuit. I contacted the shipper and they said that they are aware and have already addressed the problem by reshipping the item and I did get the item two days later, so the crisis was averted. Right now I'm semi stuck on getting the getting the pin picking arm to work properly. Next week I will finish up with the obstacle avoidance. I have the code done for it but I can't finish mounting the sonic detector until I finish the picker arm.