Mounted Inverter, Set up New Workstation, Started Working on RAPID

This morning, I mounted the inverter (and remounted the Sabertooth and the 13.8v power supply). I was able to fit all of them without too much trouble, but the bottom board is starting to look a bit like swiss cheese.

After I finished that, I wired the gyro power lines and cleaned up the wiring from the IRC5 to the IRB-120.

Then, I spent a little bit of time setting up the Mac Mini that I’m using as my desktop now that Miles is using ALEN’s old PC. I decided not to upgrade it to Ubuntu Precise/ROS Fuerte yet because the upgrade process is a bit time consuming and can get hairy. I’ll keep running Lucid and Electric on here for now.

I wrote the configuration files and RAPID script for relaying robot data to the ROS master node. We’ll see if it compiles/runs, and then I’ll have to put something together to receive it.