Blog #3 - Solar Powered Remote Controlled Lawn Mower
Over the period of March 12th to March 26th of 2022 group 19 finished the last minor tweaks needed to complete the prototype of the our lawn mower. We added a second cutting motor and blade since with just one of them our cutting width was only 5.5 inches. The prototype mower is fully complete and is ready for the demo on the 28th. It can travel as far as 245ft at an average speed of 2.92 mph while the blades and all the other components are powered on. The fully assembled mower is shown below in Figure 1, and an overview of the mower with the solar panel removed labels the main components in Figure 2. Figure 1: Fully assembled RC Solar Lawn Mower Figure 2: Mower with panel removed In terms of challenges or obstacles, implementing a second cutting motor and blade was definitely one. Since the first blade/motor was centered and had a hole cut for it already, working around that area and cutting two new holes for each cutting motor and blade ...