Sunday, May 18, 2014

Dish mount and more LED work

You had another pretty successful day today. You woke up around 0730 and then went to Bob Moore's house to do yard work (he had purchased your silent auction item of yard work). You were accompanied by Sydney Ambrose, Liam Wade, and Travis Libsack.

After working until 1045 you headed back to your house. You cleaned your room, studied a little bit of WHAP and waited until the next meeting for the project at 1400. When that time rolled around Liam showed up and you guys built another part of the float.

You created a mount for the communication dish that will be stationed on the float. The challenge was to make it so that the dish could rotate (allowing it to always face the other dish), but not crush the servo that is supposed to drive it. You finished around 1730 and Liam headed out.

Then after dinner you headed to Travis's to make mock-ups of the dome with LEDs and cameras. This was helpful to an extent, and you guys think you have finally found the best solution for the LEDs. The solution calls for the LED heat sink to take the place of the dome where it is located so that there is no glare and no black plexiglass needed.

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