Today was an incredibly long day- I got to work for 7 am and started working on fixing the code that wasn’t working. I was still having problems, but I knew that around 9 am I would be able to get some help.
I worked on doing final soldering and hot gluing of our circuits, so everything would be ready to put into the boxes as soon as I figured out the code issues. I ended up working with David C. from the lab, and we were able to get the code working.
We had a last minute meeting to talk about everything that needed to be done during the afternoon. We divided up jobs and went work assembling the boxes and make sure everything would hold up to the rough winds of space.
I had to run out to the hardware store and Radioshack for last minute supplies like tubing and batteries. Everything went well, it just took a ton of time to assemble everything. Here’s a picture of the box that contains our temperature sensors and our cameras, which are under the duct tape.
Tomorrow we need to weigh the boxes so we can find out how much lift that we need and design a counterweight before driving to Mount Greylock.