i patched up the broken leads and resoldered everything, and ziptied all the wires to make it slightly less chaotic. take a look.
and, if you're not familiar with electronics projects, thats fairly clean. go back and check it out before, on the blog maybe like 4 or 5 days back.
k, so we got everything working and then we headed out to the lake. the first time we didn't get any photos. plus, another lead snapped off so i took it back, fixed it, then we headed back out. take a look.
woOOOooo! it works!! i'm so stoked!! i took it back in and this afternoon i've gotten to work on how the deck will connect. i'm going to epoxy these guys to the side of the hull then screw the deck into them.
i'll put rubber underneath so that it'll be mostly water tight. then the only way for water to get in is the place where the deck portions meet.
might be real launch tomorrow, might be thursday.
P.S. check out my dad's project.
so the story is, when i was little, we went fishing and we sat on the bank for hours, never even getting a bite! at the end, i asked him, in with my youthful innoncence, "why do they call it fishing? theres no fish involved." so, this time instead of randomly throwing in the line, he's taking an engineer's approach. he went out and got an underwater camera, and some camera (cyclops) glasses
so he's going to spot the fishes, then catch them. or thats the plan. today's update is that you can't really tell what you're looking at. its just blue in all directions. EXCEPT when you hit the camera on the bottom of the lake. then you see the sandy bottom. hehe. he'll get it working. and so will i!
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