AUV Board

Yesterday I helped Isabel wire the AUV board.

Bag and Tag

We baggedand tagged the robot yesterday. The robot was put into a giant plastic bag. Then zipped tied on. It is now sitting the vault.

Scrap Booking

Well now I am the offical historian for the robotics club. I did about 4 new pages. A sea bot article, FIRST article, and two pages of Oscar's article.

Electrical and a bit of Scrap Booking.

I went to robotics at 4:00 p.m. because I had to finish a assignment from computer class (was a Valentine Day assignment) . But I got done and that's what counts. When I did arrive to robotics I first began to scrap book a page for the scrap book. Couldn't do electrical because Isabel and Bianca were in math class. The article was still about Oscar but different image. I'm doing a random triangle design. Didn't get to finish but hopefully will finish tomorrow.

After that I began to do electrical (Isabel had come back!). Me, Isabel and Desirae were soldering the four encoders on (two for each robot). We used two PWM. Each PWM has three wires a red, white and black. There were four wires on a encoder and each color had a number. Red=1, Brown=2, Blue=3 and Yellow=4. Then we hooked up the encoders and PWMs by red going to red, brown to white, blue to black (1st PWM) and yellow to white (2nd PWM). We soldiered the wires (we used up all the thin solder, barley had enough to finish the job) and used heat shrink. Then after that we used zip tie anchors and zip ties to secure them onto Dulce (2nd robot we are building for the FIRST FRC Robotics Competition). Next we fixed the wiring that was on Dulce because some of the wires and PWMs were too close to the motors. We didn't finish the encoders on Daniel (1st robot we build for the competition) because part of the encoder broke and we couldn't fix it. Then the second encoder for Daniel was ripped off by someone. So now we have to buy two new encoders which cost $25 dollars not counting the shipping. And since we want the encoders now, we will probably pay extra for one day delivery since the competition is so close. Hopefully this will not happen again and people will be more careful about the wiring.

Scrapbooking and a bit of Electrical.

Me, Isabel and Diasere worked on soldering the charger. I almost burned my face because I was holding the soldering iron so close to my face. But all was good that ended good. We successful soldered the charger. Then me and Stephanie went to the library to copy out an article. I was taught how to copy an article. After that I did a scrap booking for the cover of the article. Talks abouts Oscar  and when he went to Mexico because he was a immigrant. But he went back to Mexico on his own free will because it was the right thing to do(name of article is "Right Thing to Do"). Then the government because of the media coverage Oscar had, realized that since he had a college degree and was attracting so much attention; gave him citizenship to come to America. The scrapbook page was mostly a neon green and dark purple square pattern but looked fairly well. I liked the one I did about the dream act better though......(that one had a lot of flags from countries and in big letter said "DREAM ACT"). But this page isn't that bad. Oh well I will try to do my best next time. Sorry about the quality of the picture I took it very quickly and on my cell phone.


Oscar's Article







Sick

On the morning of 2-2-11, I was beginning to do scrap booking but then I decided to do electrical with Stephanie. We were connecting the motors. I felt so proud when I was able to open the power distribution board slot with the wago. Every time I tried to open the slot I did it on the third or fourth try but I actually was able to open it on the first try. And in doing so I re-taught Stephanie how because she forgot. But then the bell rang so I left. Later on in the day at 4th period I felt quizzy. My 4th hour class was band and with all the noise it made my head hurt. Then I started to see doubles on my music notes. After that my friend touched my forehead and well said I needed to go to the nurse. So, I went and the nurse said I had a fever. She made me call my mom to pick me up. So, she came. I drank night quill and went to sleep for most of the day. But I feel better today.

yesterday

Yesterday me, Isabel, Diseare and Rebecca put andersons on the wires for the batteries. Then we mounted th battery on the robot.

yesterday

Yesterday after school I helped with soldering the wires for the battery. Then me and Desirae began to solder the censors. It took us a while to do this since the wire once it in the three way terminal kept coming out. But then finally we got it right and it stayed in. After that we heat shrink the wires to the terminal. Then me and Bianca put the censors on Daniel (the robot). It toke a lot of zip ties and zip ties anchors to make them stay on. Shortly after Ledge told us we needed to wire the lights to the robots so that once the robot turns on then the light would also be on. So, me, Isabel and Bianca did this. The gauges we worked with were really small and delicate. They were smaller than 16 gauges! That was the smallest gauges I have ever seen. It took about 5 seconds to solder the wires since they were so small and thin. So, thats basically what I did yesterday.