A Glimmer of Hope?
Pre-meeting 18 Sept, Friday, was a bad day. 21 Sept, Monday, was also a bad day. Why was it a bad day? Because nothing worked. (I’m just going to exercise my freedom of speech) More specifically, we plugged in our
Some Smoldering Soldering Session
Our PCBs and other components arrived over the weekend, so off we headed for the MnT Lab on 8 Sept, Tuesday, for some soldering. Since we had 5 boards to play around with, each of us (Zann had lessons so
Commencing the wait
Pre-meeting We left off last week with our Raspberry Pi holder printing over the weekend. On Tuesday, we were going to collect our print. Electronics-side, the circuit and PCB was designed over the weekend and we were going to check
Assembly
Pre-meeting After leaving our 18h print to print on Tuesday, we decided to come back to Friday to collect it and assemble the attachment on to the fan body. For ease of reference, the part that attaches the stepper motor
“Just because it’s there doesn’t mean you ought to use it”
Pre-meeting On 25 Aug, our group went down to the MnT lab to test the code that Glen had written. The code is everything that we have been doing on the software side, from connecting the Raspberry Pi to our
Finally, some progress! (Part 2 of 2)
This is a continuation of the previous blog post. As a recap, I will be covering points 4 to 6 in this post: Apologies from me, and updates on our workflow (Part 1) Progress Meeting #3 (Part 1) Arrival of
Finally, some progress! (Part 1 of 2)
This blog post comes almost a month after the previous post, and there’s a lot to cover, so I’ll be splitting the updates into 2 parts, part 1 and part 2. On the menu for today is: Apologies from me,
A printing day
Pre-meeting After modifying some of our old designs and creating new designs for our chain idea of moving the solenoid actuator up and down, we headed down to the MnT lab to print and test our new designs. We also
Progress Meeting #2
On 21 July, our group met Dr Ho for our second progress meeting. Zann was still sick, so she joined us through video call. During the meeting Dr Ho helped us to consolidate the 2 main issues of making our
Testing our newly-purchased components
Our solenoid actuators and relay modules arrived on Saturday(18 July), and we promptly decided to head down to the lab on Monday(20 July) to test out our circuit and code to see if they worked. We also had a progress