This week, students tackled both mechanical refinements and electronics integration, navigating design corrections, tooling constraints, and waiting periods as they make steady progress toward their final builds.
Reid continued with his stool project during Senior Week Five. At the start of the week, he noticed that one of the legs did not properly intersect the ground because the intersection between the two legs didn’t touch the base — meaning that one leg would be too short or float. He adjusted some lines, shortened parts of the geometry, and redid the sniglets (small fillets or supports). After that fix, he consulted with Mr. L, who pointed out a misinterpretation: Reid had angled the sniglets outward, but they should have projected straight out from the corner. Reid began updating the sniglets around the entire stool to match the corrected orientation, with plans to finish this iteration by week’s end. (reidpacini18.wixsite.com)
Meanwhile, Miles worked on two parallel systems: the battery management system (BMS) for a robotics project, and a spring-monitoring device for his grandmother. In the robotics domain, he configured and tested the BMS, but ran into communication problems—though he tried a USB-to-UART cable, he could not interface with the BMS module. He now awaits a specialized adapter that he ordered from overseas, and in the meantime is investigating the UART protocol and experimenting with official JBD BMS software. As for the spring monitor, Miles reprinted the case, refined the display and parsing logic, and is preparing a series of posts that document the OpenSpring project in full. (Miles was here 🙂)
Our Sophomores have finally finished their OSHA 10 training and worked with Mr. Christy on electronics and circuitry this week. They will begin learning hand drafting with Mr. Lewkowitz next week.
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