This week, at long last, Juniors Roman Rice and John Paizante were able to get the motor control working for the autonomous vehicle project. This step in the process has been quite daunting, as there is not much information available on the motor controllers. The team has been using outside help, somebody who has actually worked on these types of controllers, for guidance and their perseverance has finally paid dividends. Next step will be incorporating their controls within the actual framework of the electric vehicles we have outside the shop.
In addition, Junior Anthony Cartolano has been working on an LED sports jersey display case. He writes on his blog:
This week I worked on modeling my jersey frame in CAD. I found a very helpful video that I used as a guide, but I modified it to fit what I needed. I’m going to have a main frame, then a door that opens and closes with hinges. It took me a few days to model everything perfectly, but I’m glad I took my time because it came out great. Everything is in it’s own components and it’s very organized. I went to Home Depot to buy the hinges, and I used the McMaster-Carr library to put them into my CAD model. Mr. L said that it’s best to talk to carpentry to cut out all the wooden pieces because of how precise it needs to be, so I started making drawing files for all the induvial different sides. I have to show them the drawings and hopefully they can start cutting them because there’s only a week left of school and I’d like to finish this project by then.
See more photos of his project on his website, linked here.
We are beginning the process of shutting down the shop next week for the summer. Many of the machines in the shop need to be readied for the downtime in use during the summer. Students will spend some time next week working to prepare the shop for a summer sleep. We will provide a final update to the year next week, with Tuesday June 20th being our last day of school.
All for now.
MVTHS Engineering 
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