Assembly From Storage
This document describes how to assemble the racetrack from its storage configuration.
Parts
You should have the following subassemblies:
- End cap with attached mainboard, screens, beam-break sensors, etc.
- Start cap with attached motor board, servos, etc.
- Race control board
- 6x 5ftx3/4in PVC pipe
- 3 PVC couplers
- 2x Ethernet cables, one at least 13 feet long
- Some scraps of paper
- a bit of tape
Assembly
- Put 3 PVC pipes into the holes in the start cap.
- Add couplers to those pipes and extend each with another PVC pipe.
- Put the end cap on the other end of the PVC pipes.
- Attach the motor RJ-45 port of the mainboard to the motor control board. You can run it through the middle PVC pipe.
- Attach the controller RJ-45 port of the mainboard to the race controller.
- Tape the scraps of paper to the servo arms, to act as photointerruptor triggers.