Friday, February 28, 2020

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

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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.

Friday, February 14, 2020

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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.

Friday, February 7, 2020

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

Thursday, February 6, 2020

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. 


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 

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

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.