September 28th, 2003
Bought welder, started frame.

September 27th, 2003

A kit bought on ebay that included a clutch, chain, and sprocket was shipped to me.

September 16th, 2003

Sent technical paper.

Chris bought 80 ft of 3/4 x 3/4 steel squar tubing for the frame. He got the wrong guage - .063 instead of .049. He said it was stronger, not much heavier, and would probably be easier to weld. He also got a piece of scrap steel plate.

Chris made money selling car parts.

I made a sketch of the final vehicle.

September 14th, 2003

I bought a servo on eBay. It'll be used to control the throttle on the engine.

September 13-14th, 2003

Chris and I designed almost, if not all of the vehicle. We also went to Pick a Part and got a rack and pinion along with steering rods and rod ends and a universal joint for steering, and two more universal joints.

September 11th, 2003

Today I put the relay motor controllers on the test platform and connected them to the computer through the parallel port. I then trained a network to recognize which way a line of wooden things on my carpet went. When I ran the program and connected the motors the test platform drove along the line!

September 1st, 2003

I bought a comparer IC for the low battery warning. I also bought some power connectors to connect to the motors’ wires for the test platform. I also got a D-Sub connector for the parallel port.