February 2nd, 2018

Since today was the opening of the new theater we had to close the lab at 6 which is a little annoying. However, we finished up the long 2x1s for the second stage which is really good. We can start assembling that tomorrow which I am pretty excited for. We wanted to finish the drivetrain by today, but we got held up with the constraining of the output shafts and had to redo some of them. In addition, the chains were created to connect all the wheels.

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