Week 9: Presentation #2 (1/12 Scale Teams)

For this week's meeting, we gathered at the workshop where the Small Scale sub teams presented their Presentation #2. Each team talked about their initial designs and how they have made changes to shift towards better prototypes. A particular idea that I enjoyed in the Small Scales Controls team was that they were going to go from brush to brush-less motors.

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