“We fixed our mistakes and the day turned out great!” – Shimmer and Shine
I accidentally burned off the solder points surrounding the pins that connect to our battery management board. with the way things need to connect there was no way to move the pins or bridge anything. My solution was to solder wire from the diode directly to the pins, it doesn’t touch the protoboard at all.
I also made a mistake at handling a different situation, my teammate Ro seemingly broke the motor while assembling the shell she printed for our project. It turns out it wasn’t broken, I managed to fix it after looking at it for under a minute, but I was refusing to look at it for half the morning, I just kept telling her to take it to Bevis because it belongs to him.
I have done a lot of reflecting on this, Diana mentioned I should write about it yet I couldn’t see why. In my head Ro was the one who broke it and if I had even acknowledged it then it would be my fault the piece was broken. I did the 5 Whys again, and I think my response to both situations stem from past experiences. If I had broken something like that when I was younger, I would’ve surely been yelled at. I forget how easily replaceable electronic parts are, and how it’s ok to make mistakes because I’m not used to that mentality.
That seems really sad but I swear these weeks went great, I just feel like this was the most important thing to write about haha.
Figure 1: My finished proto board. The leftmost red wire is bridging over the ruined solder points.
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