Month

June 2015
29
Jun

I Just Realised this Blog has no Title…

I tidied up the cable management on the robot, adding heatshrink to the Pi power connector to reduce the chance of an arc or short. When done, I wrote the logs for days 30 to 33. Matthew started setting up the Raspberry Pi 2 after we realised that the Raspberry Pi B+ may not have...
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27
Jun

Rebuild

Today we finally rebuilt the robot back up to where it was before it blew up – and then some! This time, we gave much more consideration to where every component should be mounted. To do this, we drilled a number of new holes in the chassis. It looks rather like swiss cheese now, so...
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24
Jun

Small Projects

Aaron brought his iPad to school to attempt to connect to the Raspberry Pi over Wi-Fi, (hopefully for control and streaming) but after much trial and error, he quickly discovered that it may not work. The rest of the team began working on the concept of a new chassis with telescopic capabilities. Matthew designed a...
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22
Jun

Proper Pi Power

Alex discovered a way we could continue to use the Lithium-Polymer battery to power the robot, which involved delivering the correct measurements of voltage and amperage to the Raspberry Pi via the OpenCM board. We need to 3D print a protective casing for the Raspberry Pi (or at least a barrier in between the robot...
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19
Jun

Logs

Most of the team worked on their portfolios, a presentation that provides evidence of competence in various areas of basic computing. After finishing my portfolio, I wrote the logs for days 21 through to 28.
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17
Jun

Road to Recovery

With the robot all but dead and without the necessary materials to fix it, the team occupied their time with other more menial tasks. For example, we sorted the collection of boxes in which we store our various technological items, which should allow loose items to be found quicker, as long as we are all...
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15
Jun

Too Amped Up!

Matthew worked on connecting the Ubuntu laptop to the school network, however he is having trouble connecting it to the Internet. Our connection seems to have been blocked by the school. While this unfolded, I fixed an overload error on the arm servo (servo 5) by removing a torque limit. Instead, we will try to...
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12
Jun

Pi IP

Aaron made huge breakthroughs with streaming video from the Raspberry Pi to a computer. While he had successfully used VLC to stream to Windows devices, our Ubuntu laptop was not giving the Pi an IP. Today was the day that the laptop gave the IP to the Pi. Now that the Pi has an IP,...
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11
Jun

Basic Construction

Matthew and Riley drilled the holes in the standoff/support for the Raspberry Pi screen, while Ryan and I started working on getting the claw and arm servos working, now that the robot has full range of movement.
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10
Jun

What If?

Ryan and I continued to work on the Python script on the Raspberry Pi, fixing a few issues with the code. We now have a robot that can go backwards, whereas before we had a series of statements that would never get triggered: if else if For most of the hour, the entire team worked...
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