Thursday, May 29, 2014

Thrusters and the Spool

Today you woke up at 07:00 in order to meet at the HS with the Senior Project advisory group. You showed up at 07:50 for a 08:00 meeting. The meeting did not occur on time (it was only supposed to take 10 minutes) and you were upset at that.

After leaving the school you and Nick headed down to Baxter to finish up the through holes on the sub. Shortly after getting to the school you ordered some parts on Amazon and worked on the code to spool the tethers.

At around 10:00 you met with Mr. Amory and then started working on the through hole thrusters. You hot-glued the through-holes together, and attached the  props to the motors, and waterproofed the motor connections.

You worked on the thrusters until 14:20, and then headed to frisbee. Before frisbee, you stopped to get multiple hairs cut. After the hair cutting, you went to the HS and played a long game of pick-up firs bee in the field hockey field. After frisbee, you went to swimming.

After swimming, you met Nick and Josef at Nick's house. While there, you finished wrapping the other 130 feet of tether (adding the foam and nice casing). The tether is now done. You also worked for multiple hours on getting the power transfer complete. Below is an image of the brushes we made to easily transfer the power from the batteries to the tether:


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