Saturday, May 24, 2014

Camera boxes and heat sinks

You went to Travis's right off at 0900 to work on the project all day, along with the rest of the group. When you first arrived you continued to work on making boxes for the cameras to be epoxied into. It took about nine iterations to find a good solution.

You then took the finished part and broke it into pieces so that it could be 3D-printed. It is three pieces right now, providing that the proposed solution passes Mr. Amory's check for feasibility.

You then took a break and helped with the compass that Travis was working on for a little bit, and then the group went up stairs to eat lunch. After lunch you took a short break from work and played frisbee from about 1245 to 1330.

When you returned to work you started making what will (hopefully) be the final versions of the heat sinks for the lights. As usual after beginning the CAD model it looks like it might not work as well as planned…you began quite frustrated as you felt that the only thing you have done in a long time is design useless CAD models.

Then your computer auto-updated and you had to redo some of the work which made it worse. You then were kind enough to share this frustration with the group by talking about all the reasons that the submersible will not be completed on time.

Finally around 1845 you headed to Liam's for dinner. Then you went back to your house to get crimpers for ether net cables, but you forgot to ask your dad to bring them home from work so you couldn't use them.

Lastly you brought the other extender over to Travis's to fit the servo to it. You decided that was probably a luxury at this point and you will probably make it stationary for now. Overall it was a frustrating day for you but it seems that it was also fairly productive.

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