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");

}

}

}

}

}

timothy - PM - 30 mins - open lab

today for open lab i worked on the dog food project. I was just working with angel and maya to figure out how to make the stepper motor work with the raspberry pi. we had to figure out how to use the stepper motor friver that was just given to us and what all the wires on the motor were. then we were trying to see where to plug in the wires on the raspberry pi's GPIO pins

PM-Lupe-1hr 30min-Robot Club: Improvements

Today is the first time that we worked on our robot since the competition. We have a few ideas on how to make our robot better.

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5529554541335319491#editor/target=post;postID=7154575616896615991;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=1;src=link

Cindy - PM - 1 HR - Air Pollution Senssor

Today in open lab, I did some research on air pollution, specifically, the chemicals of NH3, NO2, and CO. I found that:

• 1% of the total nitrogen dioxide in cities is formed naturally in the atmosphere by lightning and some is produced by plants, soil and water. The major source of nitrogen dioxide is the burning of fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas. Other sources are:

• Motor vehicle exhaust (about 80%) 
• Petrol and metal refining, electricity generation from coal-fired power stations, other manufacturing industries and food processing.

• Effects of heavy inhaling of NO2:

• Respiratory, eye, and skin irritation
• Inflames the lining of the lungs, and it can reduce immunity to lung infections. This can cause problems such as wheezing, coughing, colds, flu and bronchitis.

• CO is found in fumes produced any time you burn fuel in cars or trucks, small engines, stoves, lanterns, grills, fireplaces, gas ranges, or furnaces. CO can build up indoors and poison people and animals who breathe it.

Next time in open lab, I will work on connecting the sensor to wifi automatically instead of manually, through my computer.

Stepper Motor Controller - TB6600 4A 9-42V Stepper Motor Driver CNC Controller

Angle, this is the CBC stepper Moroe Controller I got you - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Z62K5T9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

AM - Open Lab - Rikzin - Hydro Cars

For today's open lab I was able to solder the new connection on to the wire that was connecting the battery with the green board. At first, the soldering iron melted the plastic around the connector and it off put the bits of metal that were supposed to connect the two wires together. We solved this problem by forcing the connection and in time it straightened out. For the second connection, I was much more careful not to melt anything that wasn't meant to be melted.

Stephanie - AM - 45min - HydroCar

Worked on

- soldering battery wires to connectors

- prepared to solder fan and continue with video 13

Problems

- the fans still doesn't fit into the base after cutting --> have to trim away the edges

Plan

-video 13

Today, we first did the explore Vision slides. We have 6 slides so we are trying to combine 1 of the slides to the other. At the end we did the robot project. We are working on the new car. We are storing what need too.

Dylan AM 1/20 30+ min Hydrogen car soldering

What was my Goal for today?

• Solder XT60 connections on green board, battery, and motor

How well did I achieve that?

• Soldered the battery connector and did a poor job. Plastic melted and shifted the connection

What problems did I face?

• It doesn't fit super good inside the connection

What I'm doing next

• We left the connection in place, so hopefully by tomorrow it will have righted itself.

Christopher - AM - Open Lab - 30 Mins - Motor Case

I measured the dimensions of the motor, the bit, and the case it self. These are the measurements I found:

Bit: The base is 0.3 cm while the tip is 0.2 cm (20 mm). The length of the bit is 33 mm.
Case: 30 mm * 30 mm * 50 mm
Motor: 25 mm * 25 mm * 55 mm

Before I started I looked at some tinkercad shortcuts to help me remember how to use tinkercad.

I then constructed the case of the motor. One side has a smaller hole and the other side has a larger hole.

Tomorrow I plan to 3D print the case and make any needed adjustments.

Connor Guzikowski AM 45 min

Today I spent the whole time trying to clean up the 3D print of my palm. It had a ton of supports within the model, which made it a pain to clean. I still have a part that's not completely clean by the fingers, and afterwards I still want to sand it all down to give it a little smoother of a finish. I think if the hand was printed upside down then there wouldn't be as many supports, but it is too late to do that.

Ivan Perez Torres - AM - Open Lab Time

Today during open lab Mateo and I spent our time researching our color sensor to better understand it. We looked at the required functions needed in our code for our sensor to work. We also figured out  the percent divider that we need to use. After that we browsed the internet for existing color sensing codes for our tcs3200 sensor. After some time we found a few codes with a calibration. We also found the rgb values of all the m&m colors online. We expect to incorporate these values in our code.

Nathanielle - AM - 1hr - New Project

  Today, I was just looking for new ideas for a project because I finished with the SkillsUSA project. The main problem I have right now is that I don't really have an idea to do so I just have to figure out an idea and then plan. The things I want to do right now is a remote controlled vehicle but I don't know which vehicle to do. Other then that, I need to plan out how I will do it and that is all.
  Next time, I will have an idea and plan out what I need and how the design will look like. Once I figure out my project, I will look into what is needed for it and how the design will look.

Brandon Smith 1 hour Open Lab AM

I finished the tape wrap on my wings, and made some small adjustments to the wing span, due to some mistakes made earlier in the shaping of the wing. Next steps are to sand very finely, then paint.

Soon I will Finally start on the fuselage and other non-wing components.

Michelle - AM - 30 mins - Plans for the Project

In the first 20 minutes, I was working on catching up my assignments that I haven't turned in. I was sick on Monday so I fell behind on my classwork.

I plan to bring in my arduino car kit to work on improving the code and carry out certain tasks. My robotics club haven't figured out how to code the remote of the car to the car so I was looking up videos on many people were able to code their car to connect to the remote.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoIe5amn1hg

Open Lab - Mateo C

Today in open lab, Ivan and I searched the internet for TCS230 code. We tried out so many different codes and couldn't get the bad color sensor to work properly.

Austin Latour AM 1 hour open lab/robot club

Today for my one hour I was working on installing a C compiler on my raspberry pi, so I can compile and run the program for my project. I was following steps from a website to get installed. It took a while to install and still needs some set up which I will finish.

1/30/20 Am 30 min Julian

Today I worked on my website and was just adjusting the code in a way so my website looked more presentable. Next time we have free time I would probably finish editing the code and start creating my domain name and maybe fixing the images on the website to copy right free ones.

Today, we learn about how use technology to kill Locust. Also we research about it. After then, we start learning about Raspberry pi on how to code on Python 3(IDLE). I feel like this way of coding is easy to learn than last semester. I'm existed for next week because we will start learning about how to use If, while and of statement on to Python.
At the end, we start doing Robot project. half of as start working on the new car and other half on the old one. We stalk in the new car, on the hydrogen doesn't fit ob the board so that Mr. Burnham will cut for as so it will fit. The old one fine but we need to fix the wheels, and we need to start practice now because from last week tournament we expriense that the driving is hard.

Christopher - AM - 30 Mins - Finishing Chapter 3 Questions

During this time I worked on finishing the chapter 3 short answer questions from yesterday. For the first question, I asked the person to create a for loop that generates numbers between 0 and ten. Then when they've done that, I had them create a conditional statement that prints " is the chosen number" when x equals to 4. For the second question, I had the person create a for loop that generates numbers between 0 and 7 that runs only one time. To do this they had to create two variables that have a randomly generated number value. For the second part, they had to add those two variables together and then use a condition statement to see if that value is less than or greater than 4.

Questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNjlQcgtOegcbi8GKOQN81czdoTQ0Lx0V2inyXAWFCs

Tomorrow I plan to work on relocating the cortex of Dewey so that it's in the back than rather in the front. Then if I have time, I would create a battery bay within tinkercad that would be mounted somewhere on the chassis.

Michelle - AM - 35 mins - A New Project

Earlier in Open Lab, I was talking to Theo what we should for SkillsUSA. We agreed to take a break until the results because we saw that there wasn't a point in continuing to fix our robot if we didn't make it to State. From this, I was looking in the Tech Challenge at the Tech Interactive. I was considering to do the competition until I talked to Mr. Burnham if the students in the class are interested in doing so. Since I was told that there isn't time to make the device, I decided to focus on Arduino Cars. Before my First Tech Challenge, I was hoping to create a learning camp for students at Monroe Middle to learn how to use arduino like what Mr. Burnham did in Del Mar. I looked up cool projects or ways students can do with arduino car kits. I have the links down below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7IFsQ4tQU8 

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/projects/tags/cars 

My plan is to learn how to use arduino from the very beginning since I still don't understand completely what it is. That way, students can learn the basics of arduino then enable their learning into the arduino pre-built cars I have. Then try to a classroom learning unit that students can get out of. I was hoping to do this before my First Tech Challenge Competition is over.

Nathanielle - AM - 30 min - Buttons

Today, I didn’t really have a robot club project to do and I didn’t feel like working on the SkillsUSA bot so I messed with the Pi. I tried to connect a button with it and see if it will work. It needs more work. I couldn’t get it to run. Maybe I should use the Arduino, I don’t know. I might just make a controller for random things as my robot club project.

Robot Club Theodore Taylor

Hey guys, its me Theo back at it again with another blog entry and today I traced the frame of the hydro car shell so I can get a better idea of how the design should look like. I want to make a ventilation system for the car if possible so i was outlining everything for it. I think for the project I will help design the shell of the car as well as maybe help build some of the parts for it. Ill update soon!

Open lab - AM - Rikzin - Hydro cars

I worked on the hydrogen cars again today, we didn't get much time to work on them today, but we were able to work on checking the motherboards, I checked the board form the PM hydro car to see if it worked. The checking lights for if there was hydrogen or battery did work, but the connection to the fans didn't so in a way they're better than the other boards but they still don't work. Next time we get open lab time, I will work on finding ways to fix the hydrogen car boards I am not sure if it is possible but I will try none the less. We have 3 extra boards however none of them work, currently, we only have one working board meaning that we would only be able to compete with one car.

AM Stephanie 30 mins HydroCar

What we did
 - we gave a brief overview for those who are joining to build the new car, before Dylan and Trey has been troubleshooting the old cars
 - tried the placement of fansystem and the base --> did not fit so we got to cut it again
 - figured out which connector cap goes to the battery or motor wires

Troubles
 - we couldn't see clearly the difference between the female and male end --> figured out the male end has a slit in the middle

Plans
 We plan to soilder the connector cap onto the wires and test them

Trey Phillips AM 30 Minutes Hydro Cars

Goals-
My goal today was to find another board that would make our fan work on the old car.
What I accomplished-
I took the time I had today to test out PM's board, and also found some velcro to secure our transponder and on/off switch
Problems-
When testing PM's board, I found that although it did not turn on our fans, it did blink the responsive lights to tell us that there was no hydrogen in the car, a step up from the other boards, but still not at the level I want it to be.
Next Time-
Next class, I hope to find a way to fix up one of the boards and make the fans turn on when the power is plugged in to the board.

Dylan AM 1/24 30+ minutes Hydrogen cars

What was my Goal for today?

• Make progress on new car
• Try to get PM car's board working

How well did I achieve that?

• Only worked on the new car
• Didn't get PM's board working, trey and the others did that

What problems did I face?

• We need to solder the connections together but the main hydrogen wire is a crazy mess

What I'm doing next

• Cutting the wires and soldering the new gold links together.

Brandon Smith Open Lab 30 min AM

I tested some wing coating techniques, and decided to abandon masking tape. This was for weight savings (but also because we ran out). I'm going to go straight to the packing tape coat, lightly sand it, and then paint right over. Next open lab I should be able to paint the wings, and I will hopefully begin the air frame design.  I'm thinking of mounting the fuselage below the wing, and I'm debating on using struts or not.

Open Lab

Today in open lab I created a long table for minecraftpi that consisted of all the block ids. I then used that table to be imported into my other python project which is to build a house when I type the command .buildwoodenhouse into the mc chat.

Austin Latour AM - 20mins open lab

Today I installed a GCC compiler on my raspberry pi, I was able to compile the program, however there was not enough time to figure out what exactly happened.

Connor Guzikowski AM 15 min

I did not get a whole lot done today. I started a print and then started writing some python code to create a hangman game. 15 minutes was not enough time to encounter any problem, and it is going smoothly. Hopefully next time I will be able to finish the hang man game.

Karson Chu AM 30 mins

Today I went on tinkercad and looked up things to print. I found game characters that I wanted to print and copy them to my tinkercad. Then I asked Jonathan to help me print them out.

Robot Club

We were figuring out the measurements for the metal plate, and starting to jot down the design.

saul-open lab-50 min-"FPD"

Today for open lab I worked on the First person driver. I was able to screw the seat back down,but a screw is missing. We are going to try and see if we can acquire the full set of screws

My goal is to have a fully functional First Person Driver. It is a Remote control drone that reacts to your actions on the the Driver's seat. The user will be able to view the location of the car based on the camera view,which will be mounted on the car.

There are many things that we must do before the FPD is fully functional,of which include;
-measuring the resistance of every sensor we plan to use and labeling the wires.
-Fixing the broken end of the turn signal on the steering wheel
-Connecting all the sensors onto a breadboard controlled by an arduino or raspberry pi.
-programming code for each sensor.
-Adding a monitor that can receive transmission from the drone style car.
-Adding sensors and a  volt meter to the car. measuring how fast the car goes and converting it into a ratio of MPH.

Cindy - PM - 30 Mins - Raspberry Pi

Today in open lab, I worked on my pitch for the air pollution sensor system. We are going to interpret the data of the graphs and run more trials in the same location, under different circumstances. We aim on finishing our project within the next month.

robot club 30 min Michael

I found a ardiuno nano case on thingavers and here is the link https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2545216 and i want to drill some holes into it and mount it on BT and maybe make the case on some piller like things and make sure that it doesn't interfer with the treds.

Thrusday

Anthony Buccat
1/23/2020
PM Class

Today we been working or learning on our Raspberry Pie new codes and learning the system of the programming basic that our teachers show us of Python Shell even how to used it for kinda like 1 hour and 23 mins then say screenshot our own programming of math then turn in our google classroom in 19 mins then now had a talk about what the class ideas what to do in here for next week for 20 mins talks then had a meeting to US Skills for us that what our next update for end of the last hours or mins.

Angel Villagran-PM-Open Lab

Today for open lab, I was looking into more details on figuring out the general inputs of our stepper motor. I was unable to find what they are but I have an understanding of what to look for the next we work on this.

timothy - PM - 30 mins - open lab

today for open lab we discussed what we are going to do with the dog food project. we found lots ot things that we had to do and we got started doing those things. I was in charge or trying to make some code to make the stepper motor spin with the raspberry pi. i found that you can acctually use python somehow to spin the motor and i plan to try and wire up the circuit tmrw.

Lupe-PM-40min-OpenLab:Interview??

Today for open lab, we spend the first few minutes listening to Mr. Burnham explain to us what he wants to see in our blogs. He wanted us to get with our teams and figure out a schedule so that we can make progress on our projects. Then, SkillsUSA groups met up with Mr. Burnham. I had to go see if I had an interview or not.

AM Stephanie Tran 45min Hydrocar

What we did:

   - fixed the switch that popped out 

   - had a meeting with Mr.Burnham

   - continued with step 11 

Problems we had:

   - we both had to use the blue box at the same time

   - the latch for the hydrostick was in the way of screwing the fans to the base --> Mr.Burnham will cut it off

What we plan to do:

   - fixate the fans onto the base (go back to step 10)

   - soilder the connecters into battery wires (cont. with step 11)

Christopher - AM - 1 Hour - Future Plans

https://steamclown-robotclub-vex-robot-1.blogspot.com/2020/01/christopher-am-1-hour-future-plans.html?

Dylan AM 1/23/20 30+ minutes Hydrogen car

What was my Goal for today?

• Run diagnostics on the broken car
• Switch out the green board to see how it works then.
• Make progress on the new car.

How well did I achieve that?

• I ran diagnostics
• Made progress
• Sitched out boards

What problems did I face?

• Implied that both old boards are broken and only the brand new one works, which makes me skeptical

What I'm doing next

• Making more progress on car
• Making the list of things we need to do

Open lab AM - Rikzin Schultens - Hydo cars

Today we worked on checking which boards worked and which didn't we found that only one of the motherboards worked. We are going to see if there are other boards that work so that we can have multiple cars working.

Trey Phillips AM 30 minutes Hydrogen Car

Goal -
My goal for today was to get the hydrogen fans working and work out the root of the issue with the fans.
How I met that Goal -
We found that it was not the fans that were the issue, but rather the boards which directed power to the fans.
What problems did I face?

Ivan Perez - Open Lab - 75 min

Today during open lab we sat down with Mr.Burnham. He told us to create a plan of things we need to do in order for our project to finish. I wrote down that we need to print out another piece to our sensor's arm, find a working color sorting code online, connect the dc and servo motors, and include the code for the motors. In the next few days we expect to find the code and tune in it to work with our m&ms.

OPEN LAB SKILLSUSA DISCUSSION/ HYDRO-CAR STUFF - AM - Theo Taylor

WHATS UP GUYS, its me Theo back at it again with another blog post! So for today during open lab we had a meeting about the skills usa competition and discussed things that need improvement for our robot. For Michelle and I we both agreed that the camera mount could be further improved upon as well as the location of the claw. The issues we had with the camera was that when piloting the robot, if to much turbulence is inflicted on the robot the camera tends to move and even shift. This is due to the rubber band strap system we had attached to the camera (couldn't make a better one due to time constraints) but we will make a better one. As for the location of the claw we plan to move it closer to the middle of it and not have it in the back to better our center of gravity when going up a ramp. That's it for today I'll see you guys later!!

Open Lab 1/23/20

Today in open lab Jon, Ivan and I all discussed what we need to do in order to finish the M&M color sorter. We listed 5 things that we need to get done and they are :
1.Print out sliding piece
2.Finish color code
3.Code the motor controller
4.Connect servo motor and write code for sorting

Michelle - AM - 45 minutes- Future Planning

I was discussing with Nathaniel on the problems that the teams face or to consider when we decide to help each other out for the teams that will go to State. The main problems that our robot face was center of gravity and the camera position then I wrote down other problems that we will have to consider. A list of problem was made then below would be the solutions or actions to take:

1. Center of Gravity 

2. Camera Position 

1/23/20 AM 30 min julian z

Today I finished the coding part to making a website. Next week I want to start creating a logo for the website and adding images. I also need to fix the 404 error page .

Connor Guzikowski AM 1 Hour

Today I cleaned up all my fingers I am using for my hand, and started working on the code for my hand. With enough given time, I hope to complete my project within a month. Here are my steps for completing the project:
1. Finish printing and building my hand.
2. Finish the code for the servos and flex sensors.
    -Figure out how to combine two pieces of code I originally wrote.
3. Get all of the supplies needed for the gauntlet.
4. Assemble the gauntlet, and put all pieces of the project together.

My code and hand should be pretty easy to create and execute, but will probably need some tweaking in the long run. My main concern with the project is getting enough analog pins to be able to read the flex sensors and to drive the servo controller. My current solution is to use an arduino mega to get all of the pins I need. I then need to wire up all my components which might be another challenge in itself.

Brandon Smith Open Lab 1 hour AM

I'm finalizing my wings. I completed the dihederal shape, but it has not been measured.

In order to join the two aero foils, I tried to use super glue, but to my surprise, superglue dissolves Foam...   I then attempted Hot Glue, and it seems to be adequate. My next steps are to wrap the wings in masking tape, Spray Paint, then possibly coat in packing tape.

Once the primary wing is completed, ill need to start designing the air frame and control surfaces.  I still need to order most of the parts though.

Austin Latour AM - one hour open lab/ Robot club

Today I found a GCC compiler for the c program that I found earlier. Tomorrow I will download it, as I need the admin password to download an application onto this computer. Hopefully I can compile this program and get it working so I can start building the actual mechanical parts. I need to start building the machine, I have most of the parts already, they just need to be assembled, that could be done over the weekend. I know progress has been slow on my part, however now I feel that now I can step it up and have it all working by next month.

Angel Villagran PM-Open Lab

Today, was working around with the programming language called "Python". I was a little confused on the coding portion of the language. I got help from Timothy to get more in depth on how it works and I started to understand only a bit of what Python is like.

Kyle Todd - PM - Open Lab - 40 Mins

Today I helped Mr Burnham move some stuff in the other room across from the class room which took a good couple minutes. But I also worked on some missing assignments as well to finish up and raise my grade. I also started learning about the different commands I could do on my Raspberry Pi as well. But other than that I just worked on something from my homeschool.

open lab 40 minutes Michael Hartley

I helped you move the boxes for maybe 9 minuets maybe 10. Then I helped you move the vex track and that could have been better planed cause we keep moving the think. I made the simulated dice game thing and then made a for loop in the idle page thing then atempted to do 2 dice and failed.

Busy Wensady

Anthony Buccat
1/22/2020
PM Class

Today We been learning Chapter 3 Python for two hours for learning new codes and lanagues then how to screenshot to Google Docs then how to use the files then for 35 mins keep working on my quiz question even help out moving things. That all I did for today even did my job for clean the printing area.

Lupe-PM-40min-Open Lab

Today I finished working on the Raspberry Pi assignment. I took screen shots of the things that I did and completed. I was trying to figure out how to upload them into the google doc. Then, I had to rename them so that I knew which ones I was uploading. There were certain ones that I did not want to upload because they were fails. After I renamed all my pictures, I continued to work on the code. I was a bit slow to understand, and I was trying to follow everything step by step so that I know that I am doing everything correctly. I completed all three assignments, the screen shots, reaching the simulating dice, then doing the quiz. I think the quiz really slowed me down because I had to understand the material in order to write a good question. All this took up my time.

timothy - PM - 30 mins - open lab

today for open lab i worked on a python program. i use all the things from the book to create a guessing game which chose a random number from 1-100. Then it would ask you to guess a number and then it would say if you should guess higher or lower. Then once you chose correctly it would print the amount of guesses you guessed and asked if you wanted to play again. Then it would play again if you said yes and it would stop if you said no. I also helped people with their code and I found that many people were confused about the output screen and the coding screen for Python. a lot of people were typing their code in the output screen and were having problems. So i clarified that the idle shell was for the output and all the code was supposed to go into the file.

Cindy - PM - 40 MINS - Python

Today in open lab, I played around with Python. I used Python in order to complete calculations. At first, I wrote the if and else lines wrong and it was unable to run properly. But then I fixed it and the computations ran and worked. I then worked on the raspberry pi for the air pollution sensor and stared to plan on where and when we are going to test it in order to yield the most accurate data. Next time on open lab, I will work on figuring out how to be able to set up the raspberry pi in order to run the program when it boots up.

Joshua Hintsa - How I 2D animate

The first thing I used for 2D animating is hand drawing by using Macromedia Flash 8, then I save all these sketches and open them up with Paint Tool Sai. After I added lineart, colored and optionally shadows and shading, I import them to a video editing software (I used Pinnacle Studio 15 before), where I add the drawings' position frame-by-frame. I can add sounds when I need to. I then save both the project and video file of that finished animation.

saul-open lab-60 min-Python coding

Today I went through Raspberry Pi chapter 3, and I tried running most of the commands given in the book. I went over how to make files in a directory and learned how to print them to the command prompt. I was able to calculate how many seconds there are in a year (31536000).
I had a few syntax errors but was able to fix them. I am happy I now know how to store code in files and be able to run the answer on the command line.

Nguyen-PM-30 mins - Python

I tried out some new command, methods in python. I got some trouble when I printed String and integer on the same line. I thought that Python is similar to Java. I have to convert int to str().

This is the website that I found to fix my code. 

https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/185759/printing-string-and-integer-or-float-in-the-same-line

Please get this white listed if possible

www.abyz.co.uk/
http://www.abyz.co.uk/#Misc_code

Stepper Motor Driver for DFP (Dog Food Project)

This is the stepper motor driver we were thing of using:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/TMC2208-TMC2130-Stepstick-Stepper-Motor-Driver-Module-Heat-Sink-for-3D-Printer/401557723109?hash=item5d7eb497e5:m:mZA20uJNlFrWP8ZHPjqK-3A:sc:ShippingMethodStandard!95121!US!-1&var=671282218083

Stepper motor driver for Dog Food Project

https://www.ebay.com/itm/TMC2208-TMC2130-Stepstick-Stepper-Motor-Driver-Module-Heat-Sink-for-3D-Printer/401557723109?hash=item5d7eb497e5:m:mZA20uJNlFrWP8ZHPjqK-3A:sc:ShippingMethodStandard!95121!US!-1&var=671282218083

karson Chu AM - 2hours

Today I got my pieces of wood to hold up the mirror and monitor. They were 1/2 inches thick, 4.5 inches tall and 24 inches long. I got two of those pieces and used epoxy to glue the pieces of woods to the back of the frame. That was whatI did today

Brandon Smith 1/16/20 Open lab 1 1/2 hour

I finished sanding my primary wings for the plane I'm trying to build. I made some mistakes foam cutting, and I filled the voids with a hot glue-foam dust composite. I just need to paint and coat in tape.

Connor Guzikowski AM 1.5 Hours

Today I assembled the first finger of my 3D printed hand, and then I started printing two other fingers. The first finger works really well and I am excited to see the other ones. I also was taking coding lessons on functions and was doing different challenges with them.

Austin Latour AM 1 1/2 hours open lab/ robot club

Today for my one hour of open lab I continued work on by project. The progress is much like yesterday, I have decided to use a C program that someone has already written. I just need to figure out how to compile it and have it read a file, but the whole thing is on github and is complete. https://github.com/craigsapp/midifile#compiling-with-gcc

timothy - PM - 1 hour - open lab

today for open lab i was orking on the dog food project. we installed the apache website maker onto the raspberry pi and we got it working and we just need to install PHP onto the raspberry pi tomorrow and then we can start making the website.

Cindy - PM - 1 HR - Raspberry Pi

Today in open lab, I used noobs in order to download raspbarian onto a micro sd card. After that, I did research on the air pollution sensor system. Next time on open lab, I am going to set up the Rasberry Pi.

Maya-PM-1 hour- Dog Food Code

https://www.instructables.com/id/Turning-your-Raspberry-Pi-into-a-personal-web-serv/
https://www.pubnub.com/blog/remote-control-raspberry-pi-leds-from-a-web-browser-ui/
so I'm using these two websites to get the code part and the different updates and work on teh code for the dog food project, but a lot of stuff wouldn't actually install or open, so I think some stuff doesn't exist anymore. I need to go back and make sure the packets I got were the right versions, and also get the website up and running.

Dale - PM - 1/15/20 - Linux Shell

We dug deeper into what a Linux Shell program is. We learned new commands that makes it possible to open and read different programs within Linux. Theres a website that lists how-to's and a downloadable pdf file. After break, we had Open Lab time.

Dale - PM - 1/15/20 - Vacuum Forming Machine Parts List

* 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 (my choice)

* Frame - make a 1' square from 1x2 wood pieces. Need 4 steel corner braces.

* Hinged Door - cut a 1' square from 1/4" plywood. 2 small brass hinges w/screws

* Plastic - 30mil styrene cut to 1' square pieces. 32 pieces.

Austin Latour AM- one hour open lab/ robot club

Today for one hour I continued to make progress on my project. Right now I am just going to go back to using the C program that I found a while back, it is already complete, I just need to find a compatible compiler. I found the compiler that is mentioned in the description of the source, GCC. I will probably try to figure out how to download and use that.

Dale Cherne - 1/14/20 - BriteLab Field Trip

Today we all took a field trip to BriteLab. Its a robotic/mechatronic industry that makes wafers and robotics to transport them. They had also designed things like the OneWheel. When the class came back to school, he had roughly half an hour for Open Lab.

Stephanie - AM - 40min - HydroCar

Worked on

- Step 5: screw on foundation for the side pods 

- helped find plastic pieces for step 6

Problems

- The bags were not sorted similar to the video and the labeled differently

- the drill hole on the side pods are not aligned

Plan

- finish screwing on rear side pods and finish step 5

- drill hole on side pod to fit

- test old model of HydroCar to make sure it works

Dale Cherne - PM - 1/13/20 - Exploration into Linux

We learned how to search, locate, and go to different directories in Command Line; particularly "scrot". Near to our break period, we walked to the room adjacent from ours to move some tables and chairs. Then we had our "Open Lab" time where the students worked on their current robotic projects.

Nathanielle - Am - 1hour - Louie Motion Control

I mostly built Louie and messed around with the code.

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Rikzin Schultens - AM - 30 mins - Open Lab

Today I worked on the hydrogen car, we worked on drilling holes. I also worked on my cover letter and was able to finish it.

Trey Phillips AM 30 min Hydro Cars

Today, I countersunk the rest of the drilled holes from last class. After we carefully positioned and drilled the sink, we moved on to finish the steering rods and followed the video instructions until step 6.

karson Chu AM - 40 mins

Today I used epoxy to glue down tiny pieces of wood to the back of the frame where the joints are at to make a strong connection. I just it dry and that was it

Christopher Hernandez - AM - 1 Hr - Dewey

I fixed a connection issue with the controller.

To sync the controller, plug in a HDMI cable from the controller to Dewey and to the controller.

Make sure Dewey and the controller is on before connecting the cable.

This should sync the controller.

I also fixed restored the default for Dewey.

I'm thinking of switching the motor pins on Dewey or changing the code itself.

Dylan AM 1/13/20 30 min Hydrogen Cars

What I  Did

• Countersinked holes in chassis
• Built in steering
• Found two missing plastic pieces

What Worked

• Countersink was good
• Steering worked

What Didn't Work

• At first, out steering column was messed up, then we realized how to line it up right

What I'm doing next

• Finishing rear end

Connor Guzikowski AM 1 Hour

Today I spent my open lab time by beginning the print for my 3d hand, and I also worked on some coding lessons. I was working with vectors and arrays today, and learned how to work with them in C++.

Austin Latour AM - One Hour Open Lab

Today I continued learning python so I can be able to write a program to read a MIDI file and then create a g code from that. So far I have learned string operations, I still have quite a ways to go before I have enough understanding to write a program.

Dale Cherne - PM - 1/10/20 - Linux Introduction

Today we went over the history of Linux, learned what Redhat is as well as some of the acronyms like GNU, GPL, and AWS.  We learned the basics of Command Line using our Raspberry Pi. We didn't have enough time for Robot stuff today.

Christopher Hernandez - AM - Dewey Progress - 30 Mins

The default code has been located after searching through many files.

I have downloaded the code and would look over it the weekend.

Going to reverse the controls as mentioned before.

Austin Latour AM 30 mins open lab

Today I continued to work on leaning python in this website https://www.learnpython.org/en/Hello%2C_World%21 . I went through a few lessons

Nathanielle - AM - 30 Min - Louie Arm

I worked on Louie the robot for SkillsUSA

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Ivan Perez Torres - 30 min - Open Lab Robot Club

Today in open lab Jon and I worked on our color sensor project. We design our own arm to attach the senor to the sorter. We had to measure everything to make sure its exact. Now that we finished we are printing it on the 3d printers. Next Monday we expect to attach our sensor and see if it works.

Connor Guzikowski AM 30 Min

For the 30 minutes of robot club, I spent the time taking lessons in C++. I started to learn all about vectors and the .push_back(), .pop_back(), and .size() functions. I also got more experience in for and while loops and did a coding problem called "fizz bizz", which is apparently used by most employers to eliminate candidates.

Karson Chu AM- 30min

Today I was working on my magic mirror project. I finally got the epoxy and glued the joints together. I first glued two joints together first then let it set in then I glued the other two joints and held it together until it was set. That what I did today.

Brandon Smith Open lab 40 min AM

I did some more research on RC stuff, specifically motor ratings. I learned about kv and how to calculate desired kv for any given application using the desired RPM and operating voltage.

Dylan AM 1/10/20 Hydrogen car 30 minutes

What I  Did

• Built up suspension on front end
• Fixed some of the problems with the screw length

What Worked

• Found a replacement spring for the one we lost

What Didn't Work

• Video calls for shock pliers, which we couldn't find.
• Makes it really hard to fit it
• These nylon lock bolts are really ridiculously frustrating

What I'm doing next

• Attaching hydrogen fuel cell to car.

Kyle Todd - PM - Open Lab - 20-30 Mins

Today I helped a fellow classmate of mine in figuring out some battery connectors which will be used to help with power sources for later use and help the AM class so they can use them for late ras well. According to mindsensors.com the tutorial they have given me the flat side of the connector is the positive and the curved side is the negative side so the others dont get confused in future times.

Saul Payan- open lab- 30 min

Today during open lab I took measurements on the VEX robot claw. The front end of the claw is 3 in' and  6/16 of an Inch. There are holes at the 2 in' 1/8. the holes are 1in' 2/8 apart.

I plan to add these measurements to a model on Tinker Cad.

PM michael open lab

so me and kyle did some research on the on the XT30 you found this video and I think it is going to have the info we need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVsqDOSqIY

Cindy - PM - 30 Mins - Researching Raspberry Pi

Today in open lab, I did research on Raspberry Pi and started researching a Smart Mirror since we were not able to work on the Tardis. Some videos that I watched on this project were: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVBAcvbrjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2S75AhPqnM . I learned how to construct a smart mirror that is able to display the whether, reminders, and other features on a mirror at home. Next time on open lab, we will glue down the other side of the Tardis.

Thursday 2nd Day

Well We been looking at Cover Letter for practice even finish the facts for Google classroom while listening the presentation even almost done for my own example Cover Letter for 24 mins then help out the pool room for 39 mins then work on the robot for rest of the day finish.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPK2l9Knytg67nkvpnnl81oshttps://youtu.be/x8kRK0DIIF8sAHfOgmqU

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDesV8WWHLLXW_avmTzHmJLv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvlEbdA6q

So I was using these links to start trying to figure out how to code the dog food machine, and get a few examples. I'm kind of confused a little bit, so I'm probably going to need to wait for the in class lessons to do more than just existing code snippets and all that stuff. For some reason Nicolas's monitor didn't get enough power for the monitor so we need to use mine. My desk was taken over, so we were going to use Angel's but by then the class was over. Nicolas is working on the physical design of the robot right now, because we were having issues physically connecting the mini motor to the mini model. Angel is doing research on the motor driver, which I need to do the code for.