April 2022: Final Stretch

As we close in on competition, things are starting to pick up!
Our mechanical division put the finishing touches on the frame by adding penetrators to keep the wires waterproof when entering the enclosure, as well as worked on our manipulators to allow us to interact with the props. The computing division ran their first successful tests of ArduSub and were able to control a thruster with PWM, but there’s still a lot to do, such as networking with the Raspberry Pi’s and testing all the thrusters. The electrical division has switched over to using a pre-built system to control the thrusters, since the custom PCBs didn’t work out exactly as planned, but they still plan on fixing them once we get the ROV moving.