by Sam Sidebotham | Jul 24, 2022 | Year 11
In the first week back after semester break there is not a whole lot to wrote about since the work is just beginning, but we have started off with the things we were meant to have done a the end of the last semester, namely PWM (Pulse Width Modulation). PWM is a...
by Sam Sidebotham | Jun 5, 2022 | Year 11
The past week of my robotics course has been focussed on the practical project. I ended up deciding to go with the robot dog, with the end goal of making it walk in a straight line and stopping if it sees a wall too close to it. This project was more ambitious than I...
by Sam Sidebotham | May 31, 2022 | Year 11
This week in robotics I have started my final assignment, a practical assignment in which I must build some circuit to accomplish some task. I have chosen to attempt to build a very basic robot dog. This dog would have 4 servo motors to control its movement –...
by Sam Sidebotham | May 22, 2022 | Year 11
At the beginning of this week I was formerly given my final assignment of the semester – a practical project in which I must construct some type of simple circuit to be able to provide a solution a problem. This assignment is due in about two weeks from now, and...
by Sam Sidebotham | May 15, 2022 | Year 11
Last week in robotics, I looked more into Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Law in some basic circuits. Ohm’s Law made sense at first, and when I did the maths to find amperage and voltage throughout a circuit, I got results that seemed correct. When having...
