Baxter, More Change, Sports, and RoboGoby

Today you woke up and biked to Shaw's to pick up the car (which you brother had driven to the bus stop in the morning with). After you picked up the car you drove to Nick's at around 09:45 to pick him up. At Nick's you sorted the materials from the McMaster order and created a box to bring down to Baxter Academy. After sorting the materials you quickly checked if the timing belts fit (which they did!) and then drove down to Baxter.

While in Portland you talked with Mr. Amory extensively about the camera/light setup in the submersible. You also got to see more of what the kids at Baxter are doing on the project. After meeting with Mr. Amory you and Nick ate at El Rayo in Portland. After leaving El Rayo with out take-out order we quickly stopped at the electronics store for some 2W 1K resistors for measuring the voltage of the batteries.

Once you got home you ate your burrito and then headed to frisbee practice. After a productive frisbee practice (the team learned the "dice" and the "ykk") you headed to swimming. Swimming was also good, but you were extremely tired afterwards.

After swimming you went to the community center for the tennis teams's spaghetti dinner fundraiser. You met Nick at the fundraiser. The food was good.

At around 10:00 you met with Nick, Liam, and Josef in your basement. You showed  everybody the camera feed and Josef tested it with OpenCV (which worked fairly well...it needed to be sent a slow frame-rate though). While in the basement you worked on running strings/processes using python.

At around 23:00 you tested the voltage divider with the 2W resistors mentioned above. Unfortunately, they also got warm, but you do not understand as the divider you created should only use .5W not 2W...you will recalculate the values tomorrow. Here's a picture of the 2W resistors!