Lab notes

Engineering write-ups from the Kirin Autonomy Lab.

• Modeling electromagnet pull force with pyFEMM — How a computer engineer with no FEA background scripted real-world magnetostatic models to size the chess board's electromagnet.
• Autonomous Path Planning — After the engine finds it's move, we need a way to play that move in the real-world. A* and BFS/DFS were my weapons of choice.
• Version control for CAD that mechanical engineers will actually use — Why we dropped Git-style branching for per-file "blessing" with our in-house CAD manager