The drive train for Odin has been put back together and fine tuned very well. Unfortunately, we bought new bearings. We started to take Odin apart and replace all the bearings. We only got half way so we are going to finish on Sunday. Since Ares was already taken apart and cleaned, we waited until the new bearing came in to put Ares back together. The new bearings were worth it.
After taken out the old bearing in Ares, we found that some of the bearing we were bad. This could explain why the motors in Ares were overheating. With the new bearings we started to put Ares. Although there were some difficulties with Ares drive train. One of the set screw in the axles mount was stripped so we had to mill out and modified the threads for a large set screw. Also one of the sprockets had a defect which had to be fixed with the mill. More of the draw sliders for Achilles were mounted.
All that is left now is to modify the actually draw that holds the laptop. More work was also done on Thor. We cut another mount for the other motor and holes were drilled in the frame and in some L brackets to prepare the mounting of the motors. More work was also done to the motor controllers, we finalized a design for the new modular motor controllers. The new connectors leave them some what bulky but we are working on a solution. The new modular motor controllers are going to be really nice. This will allow us to switch motor controllers in out of the robots very fast.
There was also work done in regards to putting Internet in the shop. Layouts of the shop was made so that our requisition can properly show where we want the Internet jack. The electronics table was cleaned but will be finished on Sunday and a new wire rack was mounted to the end of the table.