This week was had a half day wedged into the middle of the week, which is always a nice midweek refresh. We bookended that half day with a lot of great work in the shop as we approach the New Year break.
Junior Ben Wirz continued his work on a Float for the Robotics Team. He writes on his blog:
This week was less productive, just because there was less to do. It was mainly taken up by refining the battery holder that one of the softmores made.
This mattery holder is supposed to hold all of the batteries in a circle, in order to use the space more efficiently. This has proven to be a significant design challenge, as I had already taken a stab at it, but we gave the project away before I could finish it. This week I started to work on it again, as I am sill waiting for the stock for the piston to come in which unfortunatly shipped late. The modicications that I made were pretty minor, but I added screws to it, to add to the mechanical strength of the part. I also added releifs for the Anti rotation rods, and enlarged the holes for the wires to pass through.
Another very nice thing that happened was that the longer Display Port cables came in which meant that we could mount our computers under our desks and push the tables up against the wall. This marks the completition of adding the new computers to the shop. This is very exciting as we have much more room for projects, and also much more room for chirstmas decorations
Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures this week, sorry!
You can find more insight into his work at his website linked here.
Senior Isaiah Bell spent time this week troubleshooting his GitHub account. He discusses the issues on his website:
This week was I trying to figure out what was happening with the Github link inside of the docker container. Whenever I tried uploading a new change to the Github through the terminal, the terminal would fail finding the Github link and cancel the command. The goal was to ensure the proper authentication to “PID_Class” github by gaining permission. Then, I wanted to test a reaction of what will happen if I git push a change in “PID_class.py” where I initially made changes in order to improve the flight quality/controls.
I am also switching projects to take a little break from this complex container. I wanted to add a festive glitch effect for the metal sign in the shop. Just like I mentioned before in my post I actually wanted to make different colors for the LEDs outside the shop. I thought it would be a nice combination for the sign and I wanted to add another holder for the sign outside so the acryllic can have more support. The plan was to intergate a christmas tree with decorations on it for Christmas, but I do want the original glitch as well. Though, the christmas light interval is going to have a longer time period for each interval.
See more at his website linked here.
The Sophomores continued working on their circuit board designs for the LED Lightbox Project. They are becoming expert circuit designers!
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