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:

Finishing Up the Server (5/28)

Today was another day of Python.

You woke up at 08:00 and worked a little bit on sprucing up the code. You then went into town to first get flowers for Prom, and then talk to Mrs. Barter and Mrs. Donovan at the HS. After talking with both people, you returned home and met with Josef while Nick and Liam were at Baxter.

You spent a few hours working to perfect the Python code, and ultimately settled on using a one-server system (instead of a two server) that read the IPs of connected devices and allocated either listening or sending based on that IP.

After [mostly] finishing the servers, you went to Frisbee practice as your game against Forest City (Portland) had been canceled. You also received the schedule for states. Freeport is seeded 5th out of 12 teams! You also had to scramble last minute to get a chaperone for the team as there is no coach, but we need a legal adult (over 21) to act as a chaperone at states.

After frisbee, you went to swimming and then came home. You worked a little on the python code, and then went out to dinner with Jessica.

A collection of parts

Today you woke up around 0700 to get to school at 0800 for a practice presentation. You only went because it was required and it didn't go too smoothly because the dongle doesn't work for computers and we didn't have an actual presentation made up yet.

You then headed down to Baxter with Travis (arriving around  0915) and started work on printing the shelves for the embedded Linux computers. After getting the 3D printer started you went down stairs and glued in one end off all the thruster tubes.

You then worked on water proofing the leads to the motors as they aren't very well made at the joint where water might get in. After doing that you both headed to Portland Pie for lunch, which lasted from about 1150 to 1215.

You then went back to work on the motors some more, while Travis went to get a tux and some resistors. While he was out you tapped four metal rods that will serve as the propellor shaft and when Travis got back you press fit the onto the motors.

After that you headed to frisbee, which was at the field hockey field today because there weren't enough rides for everyone. It wasn't a great practice as nobody took it that seriously, and you hurt yourself making a diving catch.

After frisbee you headed back to your house and showered, then Josef and Travis came over around 1800. You three put together the rest of the tether while took more than an hour and a half. Then you and Travis worked on the power transfer system on the float while Josef fixed some coding issues that he had in the main Java program.

You finally finished a rough draft of the power transfer system at 2330.