Nick, you had a very busy day this thursday. You woke up early so that you and the rest of Limbeck could get signatures and turn in your senior project paper work. After meeting up at school you, Liam, and Travis headed to your house. Josef didn't come as he had AP Lit testing until noon.
At your house you got and amp clamp and a big battery to test stepper motor. You then all headed to Travis's where you worked on various things. Unfortunately one of them was not the motor because while you remembered all the auxiliary parts, you forgot the motor. Instead you worked a bit with camera streaming. The majority of the time at Travis's (from about 0900 to 1220) you made SolidWorks designs of the LED lights, their heat sinks, and the camera. As you have chosen the four inch PVC for the sub it turns out that putting the lights inside creates many logistical problems.
This difficulty led you back to the original design with the lights on the outside of the submersible. Unfortunately the submarine is now a much smaller diameter and so the designs had to be changed. You had almost no problems with the lights that will be pointed straight out, however the lights that will be angled down proved more challenging. You found it nearly impossible to get the ten of even fifteen degrees of slant desired.
You left Travis's at 1220 to for to Liam's for lunch, which his mother had kindly offered to make. We had great sandwiches, ate some chips, and played with the dog for a bit. You then stopped by your house on the way to Travis's to get the motor you had originally forgotten. Upon returning to Travis's you spent about 45 minutes trying to test the amperage on the motor to no avail.
Frisbee was then from 1430 to 1630 as usual; unusually there were very few people there and you played nine on nine with two subs each.
After practice you went home and, while watching the Bruins overtime win against the Montreal Canadians, you finished both the AP World History and AP Physics finals which were due on Friday.
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