Spent 8 hours in Detkin working on our project today. Things are developing rapidly which is promising, but also entirely necessary given that we still need to waterproof/water test. I designed a breakout PCB with Parth for our MS5308-02BA pressure sensor that will arrive in 7 days. In the meantime, we will be working predominately with our accelerometer.
We lasercut two more paddle bases with more space for our electronic shield and attempted to 3D print our shield with ABS. Unfortunately, the MakerBot jammed with the ABS so it wasn't able to finish, we're going to retry again tomorrow with PLA.
We discovered and resolved a dilemma with our power supply today. It turns out that our current hardware draws almost 150mA of current - a significant amount that our coin cell batteries could definitely not supply. We would need to connect at least 6 together to even have a fighting chance of powering everything. We reluctantly decided to switch to LiOn batteries. They supplied all the power that we needed without any problems and are nice and flat so they will nest nicely inside of our electronic shield. I also found a youtube video online that showed how easily LiOn batteries can be waterproofed with CorrosionX.
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