This April has been a very challenging one. Our first meet started with much anticipation hoping to see how well our car would do in its first race. This ended in disappointment when at the start of the race our steering arm broke off the gear while heading to the starting line. We came back and fixed the problem making it stronger than before. This taught us to be more cautious and triple check everything. Since this incident we have put the car through vigorous testing in steering and durability. The extra time between races has helped us in creating new mirrors and final touches on getting in and out of the car.
We have installed a second multimeter in the car for our testing. One of these meters will be testing volts and the other will tell us how many amps we are pulling. These multimeters will be able to tell us when the batteries are dieing and how we should gear the car. This will save battery life and make them reusable for more races.
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