The final fabrication of the surface was incredibly difficult to plan out mostly due the dependancy of certain tasks on the completion of other tasks. The coordination between group members, more cnc router time, and certain jobs proved to be the most arduous of the tasks. After Tuesday, and after the formica was finished routing we knew that time was incredibly limited so we worked all night to get the cells glued and soldered together. The teamwork really came together this week, and although there had been a few disputes between the work of a few members of the team, I feel that basically everyone was just ready to work. The night prior to the project was a tense one, with only a few of the cells working consistently. We had anticipated a few set-backs, and of course a few servos burnt out that were already screwed into the structure. We adapted and decided to have 1/2 of the cells move, which actually began to work out nicely provided a visual contrast of the motionless cells to the moving ones.
The architects had a structures exam at 830 the morning of our review, so we had to retreat a little early, but luckily Yuming stayed longer to get the code working really well and Mat came in quite early the next day to finish the structure.
I must tip my hat to Yuming, who was probably one of the hardest workers on the team-he pretty much put his head down and worked for the entirety of this project without any qualms or complaints. He tried to reach out and help with the fabrication and got to drill his first hole and pick up a power tool, which was awesome.
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