By Omair Tariq Purpose The purpose of this test plan was to carry out the test plan here and determine the gel point of 1% Agarose gel. This test plan would also serve to verify the specification already provided by the manufacturer of the powder. Equipment needed Equipment Quantity Spatula 1 Mesuring balance accurate to […]
By Tuan Vo, Project Manager For this new build, we are shooting for a perfect looking UFO with all the right curves and moves. To do this, Juan Montano uses his extreme Solid Works skills to import the skills to create a working prototype of this UFO. From the dimensions of a 2D picture of […]
By Tuan Vo, Project Manager First attempt. For our build, we will be using a foam body sandwiched between two stiff and flat carbon fiber donuts. We will use a clay mold to form a carbon fiber shell top piece that will give the UFO its characteristic dome shape. The fans mount into the top […]
By Jake Rice The Remote Control In order to meet the requirement of wireless communication between the UFO and the user, the UFO was equipped with an XBee radio. A remote control with 2 joysticks to enable the user to control the UFO was also equipped with an XBee radio. The joysticks control 2 10k-ohm […]
By Juan Montano Hello all, this study was made to determine if the air duct would be able to resolve our issue with having fans rotating in one direction. First of all, we would like to see how our fan performs as of now. Below, you would see the fan blades that we currently have: […]
By Tommy Sanchez Typically instructions on posting repositories to Github can be a little confusing, the tutorial below can be used as a guide to hopefully get you posting quickly and without the confusion. The tutorial also shows how to go about downloading a Github file from any public repository. It’s useful to understand how […]
By Matthew Clegg – Computer & Control Systems With the final model of Spiderbot finally up and somewhat running, coding for communication between Spiderbot and the Arxterra control panel, via the Arxterra Android App has gone underway. With help from Tommy Sanchez of Robot Company’s MC3, I have managed to implement the code to enable […]
By W. Mevan Fernando & Ali Etezadkhah After pouring the agarose gel into the syringe it was found that the gel solidified at the base of the syringe and at the tip of the needle due to lack of heating in those specific areas. Initially we decided to use 0.5Ω, 5W wire wound resistors to […]
By Mason Nguyen, Project Manager For a project, it is important to have well prepared detailed budgets cost in order to meet its goals and objectives. Detailed budgets will be included with the name of the item, item quantity, production location, shipping cost and total cost. Here is our final budget report. Following from the […]
By Tien Dang Introduction During the project (hexapod), we broke total of four servos. After observation and analysis from the broken servos, we able to detect and identify two problems of how the servos were broke down, while the servos are running. First problem we encountered is overload in power, and the second problem is […]