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Taking you on our journey of the making of a boat from brain to paper to model.

  • week 2
    ok the days past so fast and im not sure if i even got the chronology correct anymore but based on our chat messages...  22 Aug Anita - finished up code, Done with permanent wiring, troubleshooting Jing Rui and Zheng Xun - further software updates and finishing  Emily - powerpoint slide & content furnishes 23…
  • updates
    I guess this is going to have to be a weekly thing...  16 Aug Anita (Arduino, battery connections): Finished connecting all the cables + done with coding —things to do: learn to read the code (can finish in a day) —gg lab on this wednesday to clean up the battery connections Jing Rui (some simple…
  • batteries, the pool and irreversible decisions
    The days past so quickly I dont have time to catch up to all the events that happened, but here's an attempt to bring you up to speed... So Anita and I have specialised hardware roles now, with her having the secondary school to JC physics background, and the half of the team that sat…
  • battery and buck booster
    "eh where is the rest of your group?" Starting school and finishing up MnT project is quite a challenge. Jing Rui and Zheng Xun were busy settling online codes and the front end of the webpage, leaving Anita and I to figure out the hardware. One pressing concern was how the batteries were going to…
  • countdown and code
    We planned to go to the swimming pool. Especially after a week of correspondence and confirmation with the staff at the SRC -- anticipation was at its climax.  But we had a few problems that remained unsettled... for a start; we had yet to seal the dome with silicon, and silicon takes a day at…
  • silicon gel
    Today was a mix of 3D printing, coding, and finally a family get-together figuring out how silicon gel works.  Who knew you needed a gun to extract the gel out? and that you needed 3 people? or at least, we were all helping out at some point until we realised we were redundant... I guess…
  • software inferface
    After a long and arduous hours at the MnT lab and consulting the mentors tirelessly, the boys have finally emerged... well, the first battle is won.  this is what we plan for the interface to look like. But of course, its taking a lot of willpower and brainpower -- thank you guys -- to get…
  • mickey mouse
    In honour of Tony who likes to call the arrangement of our pipes a mickey mouse... This time, we checked and re-checked and triple checked and took the necessary precautions and --  here's an incoming photo collage...  Thanks to Limsy's suggestion to print out the actual dimensions on A4 sheets so we could test our…