Trial April 21st

Mo and Anisha Get Some More Quality Time ;)jk

We went to the trial and we tested our device for the final time before the Tech Challenge. Unfortunately as the device struck the carpeted padding at the bottom of the crater the wheels popped out of the sockets. We did not realize this until Anisha tried to drive the device aka clifford out of the box. When Anisha appeared to struggle it was assumed it was because of her general lack of competence in all things outside the realm of finger painting. We were surprised to find we were wrong. It turned out to be a mechanical failure. Unbeknownst to us at the time when we had removed the top part of the front loader, we had taken out the plastic supports that held the axle of the wheels into place on the frame. ya dig? When we removed the constraint the axel and therefore the wheels were literally unattached to the frame. The motor was attached to the wheels but the motor was attached in only a minor way to the frame. This meant that when drove out of the box the motor shifted out of position and got caught on the top of the frame. We knew we would be in for a late night at the next meeting fixing the problems. However, we were grateful that it happened now and not on the day of the Challenge itself.