Testing the main power controller, ship-Origami

Took some photos, and lost them all courtesy of the digital camera, which really needs to be replaced ASAP. Just out of pure boredom added a fancy distance bar (made with custom chars) to the distance measuring program program. Created hoods for the compass module and WLAN from Actimel bottles (it's plastic, actually).

Main engine Soldered temporary connections for the 12V battery on the big engine controller and connected it to the servo controller. It powers the servos nicely, and running the motor works as designed, too. We're getting closer...

Actually, a couple of potential problems turned out to be no problems at all. The servo controller, the servos, and the motor controllers work with each well. The 600MHz of the embedded CPU seems to be enough for W2K and the purpose.

Component placement Cut the lower deck and middle deck sections out of paper to get an impression if "it all fits" - it does. It looks like I can reduce the underwater window from 100x100mm to 20x20mm or so, having taken apart the web cam. Seeing the batteries standing so high makes we wonder if I should replace the 12V battery with a lower capacity version. Then I could lay all three batteries under the computer box on their side, lowering the center of mass quite a bit.