23-24 Week of 1/1 – 1/5

A slightly shorter week due to the New Years Holiday, but it looks like students were eager to get back to work after the week off from school.

Junior Milo Austin took some time to fix a very practical personal project – a car key fob. He writes on his blog:

At the start of this week I printed out my car key fob and it did not go well. I am going to re design the key fob and instead of printing the key fob out on the same printer I will use a resin printer to get a better print.

The pictures bellow show how the new key fob will look when I print it out. Instead of staying with the same press fit design I am switching to using screws. I also changed the shape and how the actual key will attach.

Lastly I took a break from my key fob to work on something in the machine shop. The plasma cutter needs to be cleaned so I worked with my classmate Will Tsang to clean off the rust and corrosion.

See some photos on his blog at this link.

Senior Isaiah Bell continued work on his drone project. He discusses his most recent progress on his website:

Happy New Years! This week I was wiping the dust from the drone and prepare it for flight again. The components from the drone seem to be prepared, but I’m not entirely sure about the 2 pin connectors (Raspberry-Pi’s WIFI) because they are solely responsible for connecting to the web interface. luckily, I was able to connect to and properly arm the drone. There’s surprisingly a lot of things that go into the reconnecting the GitHub repository for the drone. I have to confirm its connection through uploading a new change into the PID-Altitude. 

The strangest thing is that this GitHub is visible and present inside of all the screens, but yet permission is still denied. Honestly, I still am not sure if everything within this folder automatically means permission is given. I know that I have done this before and I have made a post that clarifies that.

The image goes over how the public key is what is denying permission to the git pushes. Fortunately, I was given some instructions on how to maintain an connection with GitHub regardless of the connection with the docker container. Joshua Phelps from Brown University informed to clone the assignments in both the monitor and my drone. This process was almost similar to just arming the drone to fly, but I would create Ros packages as the assignment describes. Hopefully, this will me to push to an IDE and connect to the ssh terminal. Uploading new changes to the GitHub.

See photos and more on his website at this link.

Sophomores are working on an updated timeline for their LED Lightbox project. Several students have completed the CAD design of their PCB boards and are moving on to designing the actual box. We are hoping to have these projects completed by the end of February.

All for now!