By

Jack Williams
06
Aug

Ghetto-bot ROLL OUT!

We finally got the robot back in our hands. Today is our first day pulling apart the robot and its arm, and to say the least, it looks like something out of the ‘hood’. The whole camera assembly was being held on by zip ties and duct tape – some redesigns on the assembly might...
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28
Jul

Redesign?

Matthew ran into a couple of issues while attempting to edit some of the original .stl files from Thingiverse, more specifically not being able to edit said models in Autodesk Inventor.  After a quick google search, he discovered that to convert .stl files into .dwg files, he needed to use Autodesk 3DSMax. However, he quickly...
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27
Jul

Return!

Alex, Mr Elias, Mr Crane, Mr Pham and the rest of the senior robotics team returned from the international Robocup competition in China on the weekend, and, anticipating a full day of discovering what changes had been made to the robot during the competition, Ryan, Matthew and I exchanged many words with Alex. Upon discovering...
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03
Jul

Striving for Streaming

We tried a number of different ways to get the Raspberry Pi streaming video to another device without success. It’s surprising that there’s no easy way to do this. After a lot of research and trying a number of tutorials, I found a tutorial by Miguel Grinberg, which looks promising. Unfortunately, we just don’t have...
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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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