Days 22 to the end

The long Memorial Day weekend was spent mostly in the woodshop getting our beautiful POD ready! David and Erica drilled some holes, chiseled some channels, and just got dusty! We had one minor setback in that our drivetrain failed (i.e. one of the wheel hubs started slipping on the wheel), but a day in the shop turning our hubs into double D shapes solved that! No more wheg slipping means great driving!

Ramanan and Rishabh continued to debug the code, and get it all ready for POD and ROAMER integration.

After the weekend, and 1 or 2 all nighters, we finally began to integrate. Integration was tough, and we blew multiple fuses ( forgot there was a metal screw underneath one of our boards....woops), but in the end we got it all working! Grading day was a bit hairy, as we were scheduled to go last and working right up until the last minute, because our ROAMER had some random disconnect issues that we were trying to debug. But we made it through grading! Ed really enjoyed our rocking horse :) He said we took the cake with entertaining PODS! #yes. #lifecomplete.

The public presentation also went awesomely, as the audience obviously loved our POD :) grown adults riding the rocking horse are super entertaining!

Another quarter of ME218 complete. The last quarter for most (all?) of us....unless Erica decides to take ME218D. It's the end of an era, but we've had a great (often sleepless, but still great) time. Thanks Ed, for the memories!