This week I continued to work on the RPI on Serial communication. Here is the git page, which we finally got working. https://github.com/kalte0/Arduino-RPI We found a new system to download code to the Arduino, called arduino-cli. This is a lot smoother to work with than Arduino-mk, which conversely ca nbe very clunky. Arduino-cli is very…
Lesson Learned: No more Logos 2/3/20-2/7/20
This week became slightly sidetracked. I was able to work slightly futher on the arduino and RPI, I was able to communicate with Serial from the arduino code to the RPI’s console screen. However, I also worked on a small side project. I was tasked with turning this jpg: Into a vector version that could…
Week of 1/27/20- 1/31/30: Forward Momentum
This week has been fantastic in terms of steadily moving forward on all my projects. I was able to finish the head for Cosmetology, and handed it off. They were pleased to see the greater strength legs and the more elegant paint. I’m happy to have created a more robust design! I’ve been making great…
Week of 1/20/2020-1/24/2020
This week I focused on fixing the Head for Cosmetology. To do this, I had to remake many parts. I had to redo this project because one of the legs broke while someone put a head on it. During my initial process of working on this, I considered gluing two pieces of wood together to…
Week of 1/13/20-1/17/20: An adventure in Finicky Motors.
This week was a lot of trial and error. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to get the servo motor controller to work. I encountered two main issues: In this, I am using this 16 channel servo driver from Arduino, the PCA9685. At first, the board was not working, and I noticed that only…
Week of 1/6/20 – 1/10/20 – New Project!
This week I began working on a new project. Since I am part of the after school Robotics Club, I will be spending some of my time in class getting our robot working. This year we are doing the MATE ROV competition, where we will need to design a robot that can maneuver underwater and…
Week of 12/9/2019 – 12/13/2019
This week I worked on creating the base and leg mounts for the spinning head project. I was able to finish a rough version of the cardboard base- and have the circuit board and motor fit on comfortably. Additionally, I experimented and glued on a small mount for the potentiometer. I ended the week taking…
Week of 12/1/2019-12/6/2019
This week was a little short for me from doctor’s visits and snow days, so I didn’t get all of my goals done this week. Because the circuit boards have gone terribly for me in the last weeks, we’ve worked to pinpoint the problem. We believe that there might be a problem with noise in…
Short week! Week of 11/25/2019-11/27/2019
This week, I printed out the first version of my circuit board. It didn’t really work, so next week I’ll be working on troubleshooting and reprinting the board. Here are the board files after the adjustment of adding an additional capacitor. Thank you for reading, Commit to Git! Renata Del Vecchio.
Stand for head, power supply, and circuit boards. Week of 11/18/2019-11/22/2019
This week was very successful in terms of progress on the spinning head project! First, I successfully printed a stand for the head to spin on. Here is the Fusion file for that: I first printed three tests for the hole sizes, and after finding the right size for the hole to mount onto the…
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