May 24, 2017

The Final Day!

The Willpower Whales team photo

May 19, 2017

We are almost finished with our ROV. Today Coleman and Hannah learned how to make our ROV equally buoyant with ms. S and then continued to work on the frame of the ROV. We added a scoop to be able to lift up the coral and the octopuses. Zen finished up with the motors today, all she needed to do was to waterproof them. Nicole continued to finish up with the control box so we are able to control our ROV. By next class we should be finished with our ROV.

May 17, 2017

3 days till we have to finish our ROV, overall today was a very productive day for our team. Coleman and Hannah took the ROV out to the pool for the first time, before the pool though they had to drill holes in the top of the ROV for air to be able to escape and they also had to cut pipe to be able to make a bar at the bottom of the frame to make sure everything was stable. When they got out to the pool everything worked pretty well but they srill have to figure out where to put the tools on the machine. Zen continued to work on the motors to make sure they are all waterproof. Lastly, Nicole continued to work on the control box to make sure the wires are put in the right place. 

May 15, 2017

Today was a productive day for the team. Hannah and Coleman measured their model frame, drew the outline, measured the PVC, and then finally built the frame for the ROV. Nicole started connecting resistors onto the control box and Zen finished the waterproofing of the wires and continued to work on the motors.

May 12, 2017

This was the second day of all of us starting to build our ROVS. Coleman and Hannah worked on building the frame and built multiple frames to see which one was the best. Zen finished up building the last motor and Nicole was saudering wires for the control box. Overall today was a productive day.

May 10, 2017

Today we all studied what we are going to be building on the computer. Nicole started learning how to solder and how to strip wires safely.  Zen chose to work on the motors and then watched videos to make sure she knew what she was doing, she also learned how to safely strip and waterproof wires. Coleman and Hannah took the role of building the frame. Coleman watched videos about framework and how to build a secure structure.

May 8, 2017

Today was the interview with Ms.S. Before the interview we went over the parts of the ROV to make sure we knew 100% what each part did. After the interview our team headed out to the pool to practice controlling the ROV and figuring out which control did what.