They Grow Up So Fast

This weekend while Mike was still in Ontario Alex spent a lot of time working the programming of the golf cart. The first thing he did is connect the golf carts throttle to the roboRIO controller and get the golf cart to drive forward under computer control. After a little bit of debugging and integrating…

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Our First Drive

This week we started off working on our new roof. It’s made of box-tube aluminum and adds a lot of rigidity to the top of the cart, which is important because that is where we’re mounting the GPS antennas. Now we didn’t want this to be just any boring grey roof, so we designed a…

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Announcing TerraStar

We mentioned last week that we were working on bringing a new sponsor on board. Today, we are pleased to announce that TerraStar will be joining the sponsor team for this summer’s prototype. TerraStar Precise Point Positioning (PPP) provides a feed of corrections data which allows GPS receivers to compensate for variations in the atmosphere…

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