Week 8 Progress

During the final weeks of the project, we received criticism and harsh feedback on our project during the audition engineering lab. We got the project to work, but the thought that there was a chance that our batteries would expand when connected for too long always lingered in the back of our heads. We didn't get to angle the drums in time so they would bounce in the bucket, but our pin design did work. Since we were running low on the Amazon batteries, we decided to pick up new batteries.
Image 1: 9V CVS battery

We were told as of this week that our current design would not be able to be in the performance, since the delay time was too long and it seemed that the construction of our design had a long way to go.
In the process of brainstorming and changing our design, we discovered the reason why our batteries were expanding. One of our servos, specifically servo #4, had some sort of manufacturing error and was malfunctioning probably the whole entire time. And since it was wired into the circuit like it was supposed to, it began to mess with the entirety of our design. So we replaced this servo and fixed our expanding-batteries-dilemma.
Pictured below, we replaced the pin design with this new design. It works more reliably than the last design.
Image 2: New design

Also, to make our project more appealing, we spray painted our golf balls and the wooden stand with various colors like red, green, yellow, and blue.
Image 3: Spray painting golf balls!

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