Week 10 - Beginning Our Rapid Prototyping

This week's meeting consisted of a quick recap of where we're all supposed to be in terms of our progress, and free time for all subgroups to work on their projects.

Many of our components that we ordered arrived, therefore we were able to begin setting up our rapid prototype. We were able to test all the RFID tags and note their unique ID's, begin setting up our breadboard with our components (start/terminate buttons, servo, RFID reader, etc.), work on soldering the pins for our motor driver, and attaching an encoder to our new DC motors that came in.




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