May 4th, 2016
Today, Camilla, Kevin, and I, divided up work in terms of the construction of the ROV and got started on blogging our daily accomplishments in this project. We decided Camilla as the group leader, Kevin as the lead blogger, and I will be working on the motors and the control box.
May 5th, 2016
Today, we finished research on what an ROV which included finding specific details on an ROV and looked at example ROVs. We measured and took pictures of the hoops and posted them on this page.
May 10th, 2016
Today I learned how to solder by practicing on a kit that Mrs. S gave us. I learned that the best way to solder is that you get the aluminum to appear in almost a teardrop structure and that you want it to be as thin as possible.
Though we were missing our group leader Camilla, Kevin and I pulled through and completed our assigned tasks very efficiently. I moved on from my practice soldering board to the real kit that would be used in our ROV control box and I was only able to get 50% through. However, I was able to solder all of the cables to the motors.
May 13th, 2016
Today I was able to finish assembling my control board. Thankfully, I didn't make any mistakes in terms of placement and all of the connections remained secure by the time I was done. Had I not come in during tutorial on Thursday, I would not have finished in time.
May 19th, 2016
Since Brandon came in during tutorial and tied up all of the loose ends on our ROV, we were able to use the time to test our ROV in the water. Mrs. S showed us a video on finding the optimal buoyancy for the robot, and we took out newly acquired information out to the water. We took out some of the floatation and it seemed to move smoothly through the water. However, we may need to add more floatation after we add on the remaining parts.
May 20th, 2016
Today we spent the majority of class time contemplating the best method to use to maneuver through the obstacle course. We bought two hangers hoping that it would be useful for lifting octopus object up, but after testing it out, we realized that two may be too many. In addition, picking up items was also difficult because we couldn't keep a grip on it.
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