We started taking fotos a little less than early in the project. By the time we had taken the first foto, we had already been
through the entire project proposal/preliminary design process. For asthetics, we had chosen to build the micromouse on an
actual computer mouse platform (we had to make the "computer" distiction because too many believed we planned on interfacing
with a living mouse's neural net). Here, David is pointing out the holes drilled into the sides for wheels.
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This is Gabe Montoya. He showed up to Robotics club for one meeting and already we put him to work. Here, he is squeezing a
wheel onto one of the motor shafts. We actually had to grind down the motors to get the wheels to fit.
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Nate gingerly placed the motor assembly into its hole. This photo was take shortly before he snapped and started throwing
things when I referred to his actions as being "gingerly".
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The holes for the motor had to be resized and realigned before we permanently affixed the motors in place.
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Here is a shot of the Mousebot housing, with the wheels affixed. Unfortunately, at this point, the micromouse is little more
than an empty shell.
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Here's a sexy shot of the micromouse (with me in the background). If we are lucky, the only thing that will protude
from the robot when we are finished will be the wheels (with small openings along the side for the sensors).
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