We Screw Up Again

The wheels were wobbling, so what solution did the Snowflakes come up with to fix Jeff the robot? Well, to screw them into place of course. I know, I know, I did last week specifically say that we would not do this as we were not ready yet, and yes we were working on some solutions, but those wheel brackets just look so good and plans change, you know (mainly as the other solutions proved unfruitful and inadequate). So down to screwing we went.

All of course was going swimmingly, as they do, the brackets where a bit of a pain to screw into the wood and took some elbow grease and the rewiring/attaching the motors to the brackets was a bit fiddly but it was going well. Notice the WAS, how do I explain this, some body thought that they could do the last bracket all by them selves, taking over from the Snowflake who had done the last three brackets, and of course they thought that they did not need any help. Half way through this particular snow flake stopped as they did not have the ‘strength’ to screw the screws in all the way, so I had to take over, but it was to late, the damage had been done. What damage I hear you say, the last snowflake had half screwed the bracket in the wrong way round (facing the wrong way) and naturally I did not notice; so when I finished completely screwing the bracket in and took a step pack to see the irreparable damage I had done, I went ‘oh that does not seem right’.

Because the bracket was facing the wrong way, mixed the the fiddly wiring of the motors, this meant that the wheel/motor, that was attached, would be facing the wrong way. What to do, what to do, we can’t simply take it out because that would be effort and would damage the integrity of the final body (as we were going with this block of wood as our main frame).So you know how they sometimes say on Star Trek, reverse the polarity, well that is what we did. It took a hot minuet of arguing, scuffling and despair, for the band of misfits (the snowflakes) to come to this conclusion and a further five of messing around with the pi, but we did it, this new Jeff could Finally drive properly and we could control him , yay. Time to testing it was.

Next time, our band of not so epic edventures ‘battle’ the task of; smile, your on camera, and ‘shocking’ revelations await (oh I do love click bait).