timothy chan - PM - 1.5 hrs - open lab

today for open lab i worked on the dogtreat project. we worked on adjusting the 3d model of the dispenser and decided to make the hole bigger for the spinning part of the inside of the project. we used a tool to sand down the inside of the spinning part and then we are going to see if the small hole works better or the big one. Then we decided to make the can taller so it could be more practical and created a extention to the thing and we are going to print it the next time we are doing this.

Cindy - PM - 1.5 HRS - Air Pollution Sensor & Solar Energy Plant Research

Today in open lab, I worked on the Air Pollution Sensor. I ran combined.py on the sensor and waited for a few minutes for it to collect data. While it was running, I did research on solar panels. I learned that PV cells absorb the sunlight and convert it to DC electricity. Inverters then transform the DC electricity to AC electricity. After a few minutes, I stopped running the combined.py. I wanted to created a new text file where the data from gas.py can be transferred into. However, I had trouble creating the file. Next time in open lab, I plan on creating the text file.

Kyle Todd - PM - 1 Hour 30 Min - Finding Code for Servo Motor

I am continuing to search for a proper code to work the servo motor via Raspberry Pi. I did find another code on one of the tutorial websites on this code but for some reason It doesn't work as it didn't move the servo whatsoever so I'm going to have to dig deeper later on with my partner Joshua.

Maya-PM-1.5 Hours-Skittles

So we got the thing working again and we tested with skittles how many would come through.
We used a Dremel to make the hole bigger and that helped, so now we have to print the other pieces. Since its been months and months and months, our next steps are now to print the upper food holding units, instead of making it bigger, we are going to make it taller, so those pieces are printing maybe. We need to make a storage for the actual computer and lock in the IP address of the ESP, and then Angel is in charge of making the site look nicer.

Lupe Castillo-PM-1hr 30min-Open Lab:New and improved!

I spent the whole time working on a new claw for the robot.
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Connor Guzikowski AM 45 minutes

Today all I worked on was some coding lessons. I need to get some wire for my robot club project before I can continue working on it, and I will probably do that over the weekend. For my coding lessons I worked on creating dictionaries and how to use them in Python. I was thinking of different ways that dictionaries can be created and applied to. I think they're a pretty useful way of storing data and connecting it to a value.

Today, we did robot project. But still we couldn't find the screw for the front tire.

Michelle - AM - 1 hour- Next steps

In the beginning, I wanted to shorten the base to minimize the mass. Then when I was talking to Mr. Burnham, I really just wanted a small base to be like the other robots that were in the videos in SkillsUSA for state between college. I decided to just change the arm, claw, and camera holder.  I've started designing the arm that use a hydrolysis or linear like system to pull in or out the length of the claw.  Next class

Christopher - AM - 1 Hour - Resolved Some Connection Issues

Urban Search and Rescue: Resolved Some Connection Issues

Openlab-AM-1 hour-Hydrocars-Rikzin Schultens

Today we worked on getting the wheels mounted to the frame. Unfortunately, we were unable to get it to stay on due to the fact that we didn't have lock nuts that could fit on the tip of the axel. The nuts we were provided with, seemed to be one size too small, luckily we found a nut that was the correct size. The nut we found fit, however, we only had one and it isn't a lock nut so even if we did have two there would be no point since it would have just fallen off if we were to drive it. We gave the nut to Mr.Burnham to go to Home Depot so that he will be able to find lock nuts of the same size. Next open lab we hope to have new lock nuts to put on the car and mount the wheels.

AM - Stephanie Tran - Hydrocar (1hr)

What we did
- We started to tape and paint the new car case

Problems we had
- the paint is see through and it takes a long time to dry for a second layer

What we plan to do
- we will paint the second black layer then start taping the doors so we can paint it --> this can take a while bc we plan to make a fire design

Nathanielle - AM - 1hr - Louie

Worked on Louie.

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Dylan AM 3/11 60 minutes hydrogen car

What was my Goal for today?

• Get nuts that fit the front wheel

How well did I achieve that?

• Not well
• Wheels were on with one nut, but no nylon lock means it won't work for driving

What problems did I face?

• nuts are too small

What I'm doing next

• growing bigger nuts

Julian Z - AM - 40 min

Tday I was doing tinkercad

Open lab - Brandon Smith - 1 hour - AM - march 11

I finished the horizontal stabilizers, made plans for the fuselage,  and started rough shaping of the individual parts.

Austin Latour AM 40mins open lab

Today for 40 minutes I continued to work on the Python code for the perforator. I am still having trouble defining all of the variables that this program has to have. I am still kind of confused on how to get it to write to a new file.

Emmanuel G - Open Lab

Our goal today was to go take our project to the welding shop to go get the wheel part welded on
Our next thing to do is start designing the other wheel and get the right measurement as well as figure out how we can incorporate stall current into our car.

Open Lab

For open lab I took our model cutout to the Welding class and then started learning how to measure Stall current.

Dylan AM 3/6 40+ minutes HydroCar

What was my Goal for today?

• Getting wheels on
• Getting the electronics working
• The car drives backwards
• Massing the hydro stiks

How well did I achieve that?

• no wheels
• car works

What problems did I face?

• We don't have the nuts for the wheels
• I really don't want to do the hydro stiks
• It is tedious
• but
• it needs to be done

What I'm doing next

• getting wheels

Maya-PM-2HOurs-OUR BIGGEST SUCCESS

After 7 months of continuous failures, we were able to finally get success by using the espWroom32 as the computer instead of the Arduino or the raspberry pi. We finished using the websites-

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/installing-the-esp32-board-in-arduino-ide-windows-instructions/

and we also used the built-in example that makes a website that turns on and off an LED and modified its actions using Mr Burnham's code. It can connect to the wifi and host everything, and so now Angel is in charge of maybe making it look nice. We also started 2 prints. 

Steven's Email for Horizon Gran Prix

Steven Griffith

steven@horizonhq.org

Maya-PM-

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/installing-the-esp32-board-in-arduino-ide-windows-instructions
I followed the above website on trying to just set up my computer to be able to code to the ESP32. Then it had me test if it could scan for wifi, which it successfully did. NOw that it can do that, I looked up the pins on the board.
https://circuits4you.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ESP32-Pinout.jpg
I also used this:
https://www.megunolink.com/articles/wireless/how-do-i-connect-to-a-wireless-network-with-the-esp32/
But I couldn't find the libraries that it wanted me to use, so I have to look those up. In theory, the Arduino code can work now with much less editing because it's the same language, but we now need to connect it to wifi and a website, so I looked up this:
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-web-server-arduino-ide/
and didn't start it, but now I can next class.

Open Lab - Brandon Smith - AM 1 hour

I hand sanded the horizontal stabilizers and had a talk with the visiting teacher student Analog electronics engineer guy, and he talked to me about analysis vs testing, and how I was being inefficient by trying to optimize before I even started testing.

Lupe-PM-1hr-Open Lab: Relaxed

So today for open lab, I worked on my AI project. I thought it would be a better idea if we also included mental disorders because this is also a common thing that a lot of people have. Cindy agreed so I continued to work on that aspect of our data chart. I put in the most common disorder like anxiety and depression. We are also adding a column that tells the user whether they need a doctor's diagnoses or not to take action. I also worked on the robot arm.
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Raymond Linton - PM - Mechatronics - 2/28/20 - 1hour

Today, for open lab I finished downloading the program for my Farm Bot. I had to download an etcher program to etch the program into a sd card, so now I tried uploading the program to my Raspberry Pi, but it turns out that it needs the other part of the Farm Bot. So now, I have to bring the sd home and plug it into the the actual Farm Bot.

Open lab 1 hour Michael Hartley

So I worked on the modle for the thing you made me work on and also my wing binders added some detail on it it would be better. the problem it that i dont know if it will print it like I want.

Saul Payan- Open Lab- 60 min- Dewey

Today for open lab I tested out a few lights and decided that I will be adding an additional flashlight.
I installed a speaker as well as I plan to add sound affects.  I did some wire management and and zip ties. I 3-D printed the hook V.4 and also made a Servo housing.

Next time I plan to install and figure out the wiring of the flashlight and possibly design housing for it.

Angel V - PM - Open Lab - 1 hour

Today on open lab, I worked o the dog food dispenser with my group. I was given the task to look for the code and so we did found one. Though it was not good and Maya had to step in and figure out the code for the arduino herself. We couldn't figure much out and so we drooped it. So now we got the code for and I will have to see for myself if the code would work.

Kyle Todd - Open Lab - 1 Hour - PM

Today i continued working on the AI project that my partner Anthony and I are doing. For our project we decided to work on a picture based detection system between A and B categories or it. I also checked on the code to replace the one to control the servo motors but I am having no luck so far but I am not giving up yet. There maybe better codes I could find on Youtube and some other  links I haven't checked out yet.

Cindy - PM - 1 HR - Bridge

Today in open lab, I began sketching bridge designs for the civil structures competition for MESA. I separated the designs into two categories: the structure that the bridge consists of, and the shape of the bridge. For the structure of the bridge I have two designs. The first design consists of a diagonal balsa wood stick placed between two vertical sticks. The second design consists of two diagonal sticks with vertical sticks on the sides of the "X" made from the two diagonal sticks. For the shape of the bridge, I have two designs as well. The first design is a pentagon shape while the second design is a triangular shape. Next time in open lab, I will finish up on the sketches of the bridges.

Nguyen PM 1hour - Ai & 8 bit computer project

I tried to run my data set on the ai.club, but it didn't work. After inserting only a correct sequence, the ai run pretty accurate, because the arithmetic sequence and linear regression are similar. For this data, I just put all arithmetic sequence .

I watched some videos from Ben Eater on the 8 bit computer project.

Maya -1 Hour-PM- Dog Food Project

So we tried to write some Arduino code because Mr. Burnham didn't know where his code was but we didn't know how to do the wires and control the way he had because that was what we were studying. We also tried to just fit the key onto the bowl and spin it, but it just kept falling off or titling, meaning we had to redo the key or make it one piece, which isn't really practical to print. So now we have to make the model different again. We did another remodel labeled dog food project and dog food project 2 so once those are printed we can continue. As for the code, Mr. Burnham found it after searching for an hour, so we can hopefully talk to Randy about the new microcontroller on Monday or Tuesday, and have a functioning scaled model for the first time.

Jim Burnham - Dog Treat

Here is the Stepper motor code for an Arduino for the TB6000 Stepper Controller
https://github.com/jimTheSTEAMClown/arduinoCode/blob/master/Stepper-TB6000-Test.ino

timothy chan - PM - 1 hour - open lab dogtreat

today for open lab i worked on the dog food dispenser project. we pulled out the motor and the motor controller and started to get the code on the arduino. we had to ask mr burnham to get the code that he had for the motor so we had to wait a bit. we fixed up the pieces to make the key fit into the spinning piece. then we had some extra time of waiting so we did more of theai project.

Dale Cherne - PM - 2/28/20 - Vacuum Forming Update:

Found the styrene we need from Evergreen. Select the 11 x 14" on this site and quantity of sheets: https://evergreenscalemodels.com/collections/plain-opaque-white-polystrene-sheets/products/copy-of-9010-010-25mm-plain-opaque-white-polystyrene-sheet?variant=33345416722


Other Parts from before:

* 2 Shop vacuums

* Oven

* Shadow Box -  make a 1' square out of wood and 1 1/4th" deep. Drill two large holes on two sides of the Shadow Box that matches the size of the shop vacuum. Add Felt around the top edges of the box.

* Top Surface - Cut a piece of wood to make a 1' Square and 1/8th" deep. Drill a grid of holes 5mm apart and 1.5mm (1/16th) in size.

* Glue - Epoxy ( by choice)

* Frame - make a 1' square from 1x2 wood pieces. Need 4 steel corner braces. (give or take with styrene size)

* Hinged Door - cut a 1' square from 1/4" plywood. 2 small brass hinges w/screws (give or take with styrene size)


* Plastic - .38mm, 11 x 14" styrene from Evergreen.

Dylan AM 2/28 40+ minutes hydrogen car

• What was my Goal for today?
• Get wheels on
• Get poles on
• Get charger working
• Solder the new wire for the charger
• How well did I achieve that?
• Did not get the wheels on
• Got poles on
• Did not get the charger working
• There is an adapter in the box, so no soldering needed.
• What problems did I face?
• We don't have nuts for the wheels
• What I'm doing next
• Charging the batteries
• Attaching wheels

Kyle Todd - PM - Open Lab - 1 Hour

Today I started working on the servo motors via Raspberry Pi program for a claw that Mr. Burnham gave to Joshua and I to work on. The project was going smoothly with the program I found but later Mr. Burnham has found that this code isn't to his liking as of this moment. So, I am back to square one but I feel like I can find a better code if given time to research. As of this moment this project has been put on hold until later.

Nguyen-PM-1 hour- 8 bit computer project

After watching the video of 555 timer, I found out that it was more complicated than what I had learnt. Then, I decided to look for electrical class to learn, and I found an electrical engineering class on Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering

I completed the instruction, and actually understand more about the current, voltage and power.

Lupe-PM-Open Lab:Slow progress

So today was slow progress...
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open lab 3d modling Michael Hartley

I was modling for this printer part that you wanted. My only problem is if it will fit I might have to fix it from the fist try  Might need to redo it thats my only problem

Maya - PM - 1 hour- Dog Food Motor Key and Code

For open lab, Timothy and I worked on the dog food project because Nicolas and Angel were absent. We got a replacement piece started for the motor to be able to spin the dispenser, because it wasn't fitting, and then we used Mr. Burnham's motor driver example to double-check the wiring. We tested the motor with his Arduino code, and the steps per revolution matched, so now we have to adjust the code to trigger when we use the website. We were using the raspberry PI's and we had a start on that, but it wasn't really working, so Mr. Burnham suggested we could maybe use the same microcontroller from the light towers from the 8-bit computer project.

Cindy - PM - 1 HR - Air Pollution Sensor & Bridge

Today in open lab, I worked on running code in order to be able to access the data collected through the sensor be accessible through a file where it can be graphed. After that, I researched on bridge designs and created sketches of designs of bridges for a balsa wood mini bridge that I am going to build for a competition. Next time on open lab, I am going to try to narrow the bridges design down.

timothy chan - PM - 1 hour - open lab

today for open lab me and maya worked on the dog food project. we started printing the adjusted piece for the build and then worked on the wiring and the workings of the stepper motor. We had to make a 12v power adapter for the motor controller so we got one of those and soldered some wires to the adapter and screwed it into the controller. Then mr burnham bave us his motor controller, stepper motor, and arduino to look at how it worked and we tested our motor and controller with the arduino code that he used. and it worked :). then the next time we are going to talk to randy on how we can control the arduino with a website and write some code for the arduino to work on a clock or pushbutton command.

Today, we first choose What AI Project that are we thinking about?. I will be working with Mateo on predicting our future. We are thinking about predicting on how can we become rich.

Then we we did Robot Project Two of us try to work on the half and the other the other half. We were trying to put the wheel on but the screw doesn't fit However, the other wheel screw fits. We gave the screw to Mr. Burnhum so that he can buy us one.

Karson Chu AM - 30min

For my robot club project I am working on making 3D design of a star wars star destroyer. I am working on this project to give me some time to think of another project to do. Today I am working on the bridge of the ship. I am almost done with it. something that is more challenging in this design that precise measurements and getting the right angle.

Christopher - AM - 20 Mins - Resizing Motor Case

I spent extra time deciding wether to increase the size of the hole by .1 cm or by .2 cm. Ultimately, I decided that the hole should be increased by .1 cm since .2 cm seems too large. I organized the work space by adding text that indicated the size of each case. This is a helpful reference point to determine size adjustments. I plan to print this model at the end of class.

I am not sure if this model needs to be redesigned since I haven't printed the model. 

Theodore Taylor - Robot club - AM - STILL taping the car for painting...

Hey guys so for today during our little bit of time we had for robot club I was still taping the car and actually finished! So yay! Anyways now that, that task is finished my next step is to start actually painting the design I drew out a few weeks back. I hope it turns out well! Wish me luck :)

Michelle - AM - 25 mins- Troubleshooting with Mr. Cheng

When I tried to power the arduino kuman car, the car wasn't turning on. I left code where the ultrasonic sensor senses an upcoming object and moves back in the project. The guest visitor was working on me trying to figure why the car wasn't turning on. He recommended me to solder a wire to power the computer hardware.

First off, I want to code the kuman car then the soldering. I would have a code prepared so next time, I would just troubleshoot the issue.

Austin Latour AM 20 mins open lab

Today I continued being stuck with the programming portion of my project. I talked to Dan to see if he could help me out a little.

Connor Guzikowski AM 20 minutes

Today I did not have too much time to work on the project, but I got a print loading which is what I needed in order to create a design for the last part of my hand. The next part is to design the part that I needed which is meant to hold servos in place. I plan on doing this later tonight and printing it also tonight.

Dylan AM 2/26 20 minutes Hydrogen cars

What was my Goal for today?

• Get the wheel on
• Get the pokey sticks in place (They keep the body in place)

How well did I achieve that?

• I did not get the wheel on
• We got two pokey sticks in place

What problems did I face?

• The wheel doesn't go on
• Pokey sticks needed to be threaded

What I'm doing next

• Putting the wheel on

Today during open lab, my group listed all the rest of the things we need to do to finish our project.

Stephanie - AM - 20 min - HydroCar

Worked on

- We drilled holes into the posts

- screwed the back two posts on

Problems

- we didn't know how to keep the post stable as we were drilling so we used a sodering clamp to keep it in place

Plan

- work on the front two posts that will go through a foam protector

Am 20 min

Since you told me to make a list of project ideas here it is:

• How to predict when stocks are rising
• The best way to market and advertise
• How to day trade

Nathanielle - AM - 25 min - The Arm

I worked on the arm part of Louie which is my SkillsUSA robot.

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Trey Phillips AM 20 Mins Hydro Cars

What was my Goal for today?

• To screw on all four support posts for the car frame

How well did I achieve that?

• I got two of the four down, and Stephanie helped me widen the screw holes in each post by drilling them open just barely wide enough for the screws to fit through.

What problems did I face?

• I did not face any problems today while working

What I'm doing next

• Next open lab, I will be screwing in the final two posts and then working with Dylan to screw in the final wheel.

Open Lab AM 20 mins Brandon Smith

I did some more rough shaping of the horizontal stabilizers, I was hoping to use a coping saw, but I had to make do with the band saw. This lead to some more inaccurate cuts and I didn't feel comfortable taking off too much material. Next step is sanding horizontal stabilizers.

Open Lab - Mateo Chacon - 2/16/20

Today in open lab, I thought we were closing the M&M Sorter project, but I guess were still working on it. In order to make this project work we need to do 3 things such as the if else code for servo, fix color sensor, and plug a power source into the thing.

Dylan AM 20 minutes 2/14 hydrogen car

What was my Goal for today?

• Get the wheel attached

How well did I achieve that?

• Poorly, not at all

What problems did I face?

• I can't get the wheel on
• I swear the nut is just too small

What I'm doing next

• Getting the wheel on
• There are literally like no more steps

Cindy - PM - 1.5HR - Raspberry Pi

Today in open lab, I worked on my air pollution sensor system. The data collected should be able to be uploaded onto the Lufdaten cloud. However, the data was unable to be uploaded. Therefore, I worked on trying to transfer the data onto a file, where the data would be accessible and be able to be graphed. I was able to save the data when the sensor runs. Next time in open lab, I will work on graphing the data.

Maya -PM-1.5 hours-3D demo model

We finished draft 3 of the 3D mockup and started printing the pieces, so once they print,(they take a few hours each), we can put the actual motor in. We have Arduino code for the motor so we can test the mockups on that and we are still looking for the code for the webserver that will work. We are having issues with the host port and hostname which are giving us errors in our example code. While I was writing this the key that fits on the motor shaft finished printing and it might be too big, I don't know what happened because we measured the model and the real thing but it doesn't look like its the right size. The AI unit started though so we didn't take it out.

Christopher - AM - 40 Mins - Motor Case

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During the first couple of minutes I downloaded the motor case model to the USB stick. When I was about to print, it took me a couple of minutes to open the case and to clear the model in the work-space.

When I was waiting for the part to finish printing for 15 minutes, I worked on python code. I fully implemented the number guessing game. The bug was that when the person wanted to continue the game, the game wouldn't continue. I fixed this issue where if the user wanted to continue the game, the game function would be called.  Some other stuff I did was that I updated the version of the program and did minor tweaks (removing unnecessary lines of code).

When the part printed, I removed the material stuck to the model. I did this for several minutes.

I later found out that the part didn't fit into the case so i'm making the hole larger.

Karson Chu AM - 40 min

Today I have finished my robot club project. I finally got the screws I need to hold the monitor to and the mirror. To make it more secure I add some small pieces to the side of the mirror to make it more secure. I used epoxy to glue the small wood pieces in. I let it dry then I put the entire mirror together and ran it and it worked.

Stephanie - AM - min - HydroCar

Worked on

- connect Hydrostick tubing

- screw the back wheel and one front wheel on

Problems

- the nut wouldn't screw onto the axel --> the length is too narrow to use any tools and we think that the threading could be destroyed

Plan

- we thought of cutting off a small part of the destroyed threading

- cut and install the front foam bumpers

- continue with step/video 18

Trey Phillips AM 1hr Hydrocars

What was my Goal for today?

• Install fuel cell
• Install on/off switch for fan
• Install body pillars

How well did I achieve that?

• I found a set of screws to replace the ones we are missing and was able to screw in the fuel cell.
• I velcroed the on/off switch for the fan to the top of the fuel cell for easy access during races.

What problems did I face?

• I found that the body pillars had screw holes that were far too small for the screws provided
• I could not find an adequate screwdriver for the pillar screws and am now substituting with allen wrenches

What I'm doing next

• Drilling a bigger hole in the pillars
• Screwing the pillars in

Dylan AM 2/12 30+ minutes hydrogen car

What was my Goal for today?

• To attach fuel cell to the car, get it running

How well did I achieve that?

• Actually Trey did it before I even got to the car
• Instead we worked on getting the wheels attached

What problems did I face?

• We couldn't find 4 of the 8 screws we needed for the rear wheels.
• Turns out we didn't them, just two screws for each wheel diagonally.
• The nylon lock nuts are incredibly hard to get on the bolt, so the right front wheel isn't attached yet.

What I'm doing next

• Attach right front wheel
• attach the posts hat hold the car body in place.

Open Lab - Ivan Perez Torres - 1 hour - AM

Today during I wrote my cover letter and turned it into google class room. It took me a little while because I had make it good. After that I started up my color sensing value code and made the the out put values smaller. I did this because I was getting values in the 10,000 when i just need values in the hundreds. After that one of the wires completely ripped so we had to re solder and heat shrink to make it neat.

Nathanielle - AM - 40 min - SkillsUsa

I worked on Louie my Urban Search and Rescue bot.

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Michelle - AM - 40 mins- Fixing and Coding the Kuman Car

The line tracking sensor fell off during my time with using the Kuman Car in the Rube Gold Project, so I had to reattach those sensors back into the car. I'm hoping to start off with a basic code that works with the wheel motors then the ultrasonic sensor and line tracking sensor.  For the first 20 minutes, I was just figuring out which screw can fit into the car to reattach the line tracking sensor then I just worked on editing the code from the GitHub. My plan is to use all the sensors and motors that came in and were built into the robot.

Austin Latour AM 40 mins open lab

Today for 40 mins I was editing python programs in the raspberry pi

30 min 2/12 AM

Today I finished my late work, which included How to use tech to kill locusts and how machines learn

Open Lab - Mateo Chacon

Today in open lab, Ivan showed me the way to properly write a cover letter. I wrote about my career being at Cisco for cyber security. I ended up getting my cover letter turned in and after that me and Ali went to go draw perspective art.

OPEN LAB - THEODORE TAYLOR - AM - CAR TAPING FOR PAINTING

Hey guys back at it with another blog!! And today all I did was tape the hydro car shell for painting and prototype a specific design for our car. Okay thats it bye!

Brandon Smith AM open lab 40 min

I took some measurements and cut out the raw material for the horizontal stabilizers.

Dylan AM 2/7/20 hydro car 60+ minutes

What was my Goal for today?

• Install fuel cell
• Continue on next step of building car

How well did I achieve that?

• Turns out the white plastic fat connection got hurt somehow
• We think that some time when we tried to saw the end off

What problems did I face?

• The connection was destroyed, it didn't fit right
• We changed out the fuel cell, sanded down the sides, and made sure not to break the connection.
• It doesn't screw down because screw doesn't sit flush.

What I'm doing next

• Screwing the fuel cell down
• Solving the screw length problem

Stephanie - AM - min - HydroCar

Stephanie - AM - min - HydroCar

Worked on

- velcro on ESC

- screw on motor

-sanded fan edges

Problems

- the fan didn't fit on the base, so we sanded the edge off

- the motor wasn't align with the plastic

Plan

- screw on fan

Christopher - AM - 30 mins - TinkerCad and Python

During the beginning of the lab I tried placing the rudder rail through the large hole. After trying for a couple of minutes, it was no use. And because of this, I slightly increased the size of the hole. The other side, however, does fit perfectly. I didn't print the model today.

For the remainder of openlab, I worked on python code. What I was working on was putting all the scripts I created together. Right now there's a primary menu where a person can access the calculators (wage calculator and the normal the calculator). I then added the lucky number game code.

Ultimately, I refined the program to reduce the amount of bugs and errors. The program is now 200 lines long and I plan to expand it.

Michelle - AM - 50 mins - Catching up Labs and Figuring out error

I was catching up on work that I missed on Tuesday since I had to go to a court order. I was able to finish all the labs but I still can't lab #5 working for conditionals. I've tried to change the coding using these website but I always get a syntax error on except line. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46380181/how-to-use-try-except-statement-in-python-to-handle-non-numeric-inputshttps://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/errors.html 

I've tried to break down the problem from seeing any issues from the first line to the end line. From there, I was able to fix or add any code necessary but I still don't understand what the exact error. I've tried to:

1. Define my variables 

2. Make sure that the lines correlate with each other 

Farmbot list of tasks

1) See if there is a SD card
2) Where does the USB cable go?
3) See if it is powered on or if your re-connect power it turns on... with both Red and Green leds
4) Are there instructions for creating an SD card?
5) Is there instructions for connecting through WiFi
6) Is there instructions to connect remotely (probably with the wifi, Blue tooth or the USB

Dylan AM 2/5 30 minutes hydrocar

What was my Goal for today?

• Solder battery and motor

How well did I achieve that?

• Succeeded

What problems did I face?

• Had to redo the battery a few times
• Difficult to get the wire to fit in the solder point

What I'm doing next

• Sawing the fuel cell sides to fit the screw holes in right.

Angel Villagran, Mechatronics:Robot Club

I was looking into moe details on the driver we have for our project and the info I got are in this doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xF3A7fFjJj8qVeDM0Kw76M3ulFGf7ZYwBib0UjSn8Dc/edit

And for the connections of everything with the motor to the driver, this website I found might be very useful:https://woodgears.ca/2020.html

Anthony Buccat:Friday Stress

Today we just learn a new lesson that about we need to learn the 1 & 0 that makes a number then study it for a 1 hour 24mins then we got out break for 5mins or 10mins then I go to the meeting that kinda is dumb but ibfjfkyumportant then reseach about robot upgrade for end of the time day.

PM open lab Michael

I made a rifle to day and made some slight size ajustments I hope that it fits on the tray thing when it prints I might just print the sword solo. And then print the beam cannons and rifle together and that is what I am going to be.

timothy - PM - 1 hour - open lab

today for open lab i worked on the code for the dog food project. Me angel and maya were trying to figure out how to get the html file communicate with the python file and we found some good sources online. and we also found some material online on how to properly wire and use the motor controller.

Saul Payan-Open Lab- 40 Min- FPD/Skills meeting

Today during open lab I attended the skillsUSA meeting,which took around 30-45 min.
They talked about the fee, registration requirements,uniform, bus and luggage,etc.
I then worked on my FPD simulator.  I was able to solder wires needed to make connections to the steering wheel onto the inputs.

Cindy - PM - 1 HR - Air Pollution Sensor

Today in open lab, I practiced my presentation for the RaspberryPi Air Pollution Sensor:

There has been an alarming growth of global pollution this pst decade that has been destructing our environment as well as jeopardizing our health and future. This major problem galvanized us to aim to create a device that is easily accessible to those in our community and is able to inform us of the quality of the air in order to raise awareness on the on going problem of air pollution. We strived to successfully construct a system that detects the amounts of chemicals, specifically CO and CO2.
For our project, we aimed to answer the question, "How do the concentrations of carbon oxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ammonia in the atmosphere with traffic emissions differ from those in an unpopulated environment.

Nguyen - PM - 40 mins - Java

I practiced on the arrays of String list. I used for loop to print out the list of words, which have been organized.

import java.lang.Math;

import java.lang.String;

class Main {

public static String [] list = {};

public static void main(String[] args)

{

String[] list = {"every", " near ing ", " checking", "food ", "stand", "value s"};

System.out.println("\nNew Array List.");

System.out.print("{");

for(int i = 0; i < list.length; i++)

{

for (int x = 0; x < list[i].length(); x++)

{

//Condition if char is not a space-------------------------

if(list[i].charAt(x) != ' ')

{

System.out.print(list[i].charAt(x));

}

}

//Condition for comma---------------------------------------

if ( i < list.length-1)

{

System.out.print(", ");

}

}

System.out.println("}");

}

}

Maya- 1 HR-PM-Website Python

we tried to find different instructables on how to get the html code of the website to call on the python code and then copied and pasted it into the html and python scripts that we set up. we can get a button to link us to a website, but i can't find instructions to make it call the python script. Instructables did show up with examples but their code wasn't working. I need to go through and find the stepper motor code as well. Angel said he found a video so hopefully it works but it isn't being controlled by a website, so once we find the two separate concepts hopefully we'll have a working code.

PM-Lupe Castillo-Open Lab: What even is this?

I was at the SkillsUSA meeting for the majority of the time, so I did not have that much lab time. In the meeting, we talked about all the details about transportation, uniforms, costs, luggage, and everything else. It was a pretty long meeting, I must admit, but what I did do with the little time I did have is kept working on the binary quizzes very carefully so that I understand it and that I did it all well. Then I did some research on the extendable arm, but still have no luck on finding good information.

Christopher - AM - 30 mins - SkillsUSA

For the majority of open lab time, I was at the skillsUSA meeting. We talked about how we would be missing school between April 16 and April 19 when in Ontario. We also discussed what would be going on within those 3 days. Ultimately, I had 10 minutes of open lab time.

During this time I exported the case model to a usb, and then connected it to the printer. Before I exported the model, I created a smaller version.

I plan to downsize the diameter of the case since it is too large.

Open lab - AM - Rikzin

I worked on late work and checking connections on the hydro cars. I got to test drive the hydro car.

Trey Phillips AM 20 minutes Hydrogen cars

Today, my goal was to continue work on the wire connections and finish soldering them. There wasn't enough time to work on more than one however, so next time I will be working on finishing the other two connectors.

Dylan AM 1/31 30+ minutes

What was my Goal for today?

Solder more connections

How well did I achieve that?

Not very well, ended up diagnosing the old car.

Stephanie soldered the new connection

What problems did I face?

none

What I'm doing next

Locating the extra XT60 connections

Making a new connector for the LiPo battery charger

Stephanie - AM - 30min - HydroCar

Stephanie - AM - min - HydroCar

Worked on

- soldering connector onto the mini-fan which took forever

-step 14 right now

Problems

-the solder was beading so it took a long time to smooth it out

Plan

-fix the other connector soldering on the battery

-solder the conector onto the motor wire

- probably take more 30 minutes

Mateo Chacon - Open Lab - AM

Today in open lab I went online and found a setup for the TCS230 to work on the raspberrypi.

Ivan Perez Torres - AM - Open Lab

Today in open lab we had a discussion with Mr.Burnham. We told him that we were having trouble finding a working code for our sensor with an arduino. He asked us if we still wanted to use an arduino or switch to a raspberry pi. He told us what we should each work on to so that we make the most progress possible. In the future i expect to try the code i found for the raspberry pi.

1/31

Today during open lab i went to the cafe and got food and came back to class and helped Karsin 3D print his project. Then i finished scraping the support plastic off of my print and worked with my group about how were going to continue our project.

Michelle - AM - 10 min - SkillsUSA Schedule and Personal Plans

While Nathanielle and Christopher left the meeting, me and Theo decided to stay right after to talk to Ms. Gina about the issue on the scoring system. Out of the conversation, Ms. Gina will talk to the SkillsUSA organization to see if they're able to fix and know how to handle the situation. Right after, me and Theo decided to take a break from building and focused on our own tasks. 

 

Nathanielle - AM - 30 min - Skills Meeting

Today, all I did was go to the SkillsUSA meeting and that took most of the open lab. After that, I just messed around with Tinkercad.

Connor Guzikowski AM 30 Min

Today I was focused on making my code for the hand. I decided to take a break from assembling the hand and switched to the software part of it. I am not too sure if my code will work yet, there are certain things that I am uncertain about, such as: using the array as a parameter in a function and writing to the pwm servo driver. Next time I hope to be able to test my code.

1/31/20 AM Julian

Today I made a code to allow me to import real reviews website to website, without having to copy and paste every single one. I also fixed any 404 errors and the search bar.

Austin Latour AM 20mins open lab

Today for 20 minutes I continued the setup process for the GCC compiler on the PI, it took sometime because I forgot to save the instruction website I was using yesterday, so I had to find it again. It is confusing to install, setup and use this compiler.

Open Lab 1/31/20 AM

Today I made a cardboard cutout for a metal plate and plan on using tinker cad as well to get another replica before we get the metal plate. Worked on our progression document for the project.

Anthony Buccat: Easy Thursday

Well were done our project that Mr.Burnham that we need to finish over 1:26 hours of working on with like a group then did with the robot remodeling for rest of the day.

PM open lab Michael H

I went into tinkercad and put and designed a twin beam cannon from the gundam univers which was no to bad cause i got t off of thingivers and then made some changes. Then i put in a thing called th buster sword and i like it, I like it a lot

Maya-PM-1 hour-Robot Club

https://www.rototron.info/raspberry-pi-stepper-motor-tutorial/
So Angel got the Stepper motor driver and we found this website which isn't using the same motor driver or motor, but its still a 4 wire stepper motor and a raspberry pi, so once we found the datasheet for the motor, we worked on deciphering the code that was given, so I think I get it, its not too different from C+. We started on wiring the driver, but the Raspberry PI GPIO pins are numbered really strangely so we had to be careful to not break anything, because its expensive and we don't want to break it.

Kyle Todd - PM - 1 Hour - Open Lab

Today I started helping around the class and also researching on how a Raspberry Pi can control servo motors for a claw that Mr. Burnham gave me to look at for the moment. Aside from that I worked on my Explora-vision project of alternate Biofuel with algae as the source of it to reduce air pollution and burning of fossil fuels.

Joshua Hintsa - What I did to my robot

I installed a new 3D-printed piece to my robot.

Nguyen-PM-40 mins - Open Lab

I worked on a code that can print out the array of list numbers from copying inputs from user, also calculate its range, average and determine is it a increasing or decreasing or unsorted order.
But I have trouble at determining sorting order.
 I used "for loop", if else statements, and math methods.

import java.io.*;

import static java.lang.System.*;

import java.util.Scanner;

import java.lang.Math;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args)

{

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

//Set Variable-----------------------------------------

int count = 0;

double sum = 0;

double min = Double.MAX_VALUE;

double max = Double.MIN_VALUE;

//Set up-----------------------------------------------

System.out.println("How long do you want the array?");

int num = scan.nextInt();

if (num<0)

{

System.out.println("Not a valid length!");

}

else

{

double[] array = new double [num];

for (int i = 0; i < num; i++)

{

System.out.println("Enter a number:");

double x = scan.nextDouble();

array[i] = x;

sum += x;

count++;

}

//Find the smallest num in array-------------------------

for (int u = 0; u < num; u++)

{

if (min > array[u])

{

min = array[u];

}

}

//Find the largest num in array-------------------------

for (int a = 0; a < num; a++)

{

if (max < array[a])

{

max = array[a];

}

}

System.out.print("Your array is { ");

//Print out the array----------------------------------

for (int e = 0; e < num; e++)

{

System.out.print(array[e] + ", ");

}

System.out.println("}");

System.out.println("The average is " +(sum/count));

System.out.println("The range is " + (max-min));

//Sorted order array-----------------------------------

for (int z = 0; z < (num-1); z++)

{

if ( array[z] > array[z+1])

{

System.out.println("The array is sorted in decreasing order");

}

else if ( array[z] < array[z+1])

{

System.out.println("The array is sorted in increasing order");

}

else

{

System.out.println("The array is unsorted");

}

}

}

}

}