It was a short week, made even shorter with the PSAT exam happening on Wednesday. That meant we had less time with our Juniors and Seniors – with the latter group not at school that day. Still, a lot of things were happening as we progress through the middle of October.
Junior Aaron BenDaniel has been working hard on a full redesign of the underwater ROV for the Robotics Team. He writes on his website:
This week I received a response from Shane, Mr. Christy’s “PCB guy”. He had looked over all of the PCBs we have for our new ROV so far and pointed out some flaws that I would not have noticed myself. For example: wires getting caught on plastic structural clamps of some connectors and connecting the signal-ground pads to the ground-plane. I believe that the signal-ground pads and the power-ground pads are connected inside the ESCs, but better safe than sorry.
I also began modeling the hardware for the new ROV frame. I believe I have a final design for the parts of the frame itself, but I still need to plan out how each part will connect together. I’d kept this in mind when designing it, so I already mostly know how everything will connect, but I still need to actually model all the nuts, bolts, and washers, as well as putting in all the holes for them.
On Thursday, at Mr. Christy’s recommendation, I spoke with Matthew Stricker, a sophomore in the shop, about building some new Tube Cameras for the robotics team. Because we’re building a whole new ROV, but keeping our old one, we need more cameras for it. I could build them myself, but I already have quite a bit to do, so I could use the help. I prepared all of the manufacturing documents he’ll need, but I don’t believe he knows how to use most of the machines the process will use. I would teach him, but the whole point of him doing it is that I’m not… I’m sure he’ll be able to find someone else to teach him. I hope.
Check out the images on his website, click here.
Senior John Paizante is working on a custom designed video game controller. He writes on his blog:
This week I worked on a 2d version to make sure the buttons fit. On the function button the space will need to be added. I will also print the sides to see we’re will the PCB fit. I also worked on the golf cart just to help Roman make a PCB for it.
See photos of his design at his website, click here.
The Sophomore class continued working on CAD tutorials this week as well as learning hand drawing. They have completed close to 10 hand drawings using rulers, triangles, and compasses to create scaled images and designs. Some photos of them at work are below.
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