Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The [almost] Final Push

Today was another long day. You woke up at 07:00 and met Nick at the hardware store to try and find 3.5" PVC pipe and special spray paint. You soon left the store and headed down to Baxter as the hardware store did not carry any of the materials you were looking for.

At Baxter you and Nick worked on wiring the submersible and creating a read thruster. You left baxter around 12:30 and headed home. You went to your house while Nick went to meet Josef and Liam at the school. While at your house you finished setting up the Raspberry Pi's (and accidentally broke one!...but no worries, you have another) and fixed the 5v power source you made last night. After working until 18:00 creating ribbon cables for the Pi's, you headed to academic awards. After academic awards you and Josef headed to Home Depot in Topsham and picked up spray paint to paint the sub with.

After returning home you fixed the large epoxied motor, worked on the second beagle bone shield. The second shield is below:


After spending more than 14 hours on the project, you decided to call it a day.

A day of many trips

You had a crazy day today. You woke up around 0730 and met Travis at the Hardware store at 0800. You didn't find what you were hoping for and so headed to Baxter.

There you finished cutting out the main thruster cone and also got a bunch of wiring done. You then took a bunch of parts that you need to fit together over the next couple days. From there you went to senior projects (and arrived at 1300 in time to see only one – Emma and Fiona's about co-operatives).

At FHS you met Liam and Josef. Josef went to Travis's and you and Liam headed back to your house. You then ate lunch and worked on the float for a while, getting half of it together in a nice fashion after a few small glitches. You then brought it to Travis's with some other stuff and all worked on a bunch of different things from soldering, to spray painting, to sanding. Around that time you also ate diner.

You then got ready for Academic awards and went to that long ordeal from 1830 to 2000. You then returned to your house to change and get some parts that your Dad had brought home from work. You then brought all the stuff to Travis's and resumed work. Turns out that some metal had to be bent and there is no good vice at Travis's house so you and Liam then went back to your house for half an hour (from 2230 to 2300).

Upon returning to Travis's you got a couple more things done for tomorrow including a couple more layers of spray-paint and a quick CAD model.