Week 8

     This week we ordered another LiPo battery for the motor, as the previous one died from being plugged in for too long to the low- voltage checker. We also received the stock brass we had ordered and used the CNC machine to mill out our second brass weight. (We had tried to do this last week, but the stock came loose and we were unable to use it.)

We now have two of the brass weights that are this size (Revision 2). 

     The rest of the week each person worked on his or her Broader Impacts essay that was due at the beginning of Week 9. These were individual assignments and consisted of a 1,500 paper that discussed the social, economic, safety, and environmental implications of the project in both a local and global context.