by Sam Sidebotham | May 2, 2022 | Year 11
On the first week back after mid semester break I was given my final assignment for the semester – a practical project in which I must build some kind of circuit. I was also given the outline of the types of lessons which would proceed this week, being studies...
by Sam Sidebotham | Apr 3, 2022 | Year 11
Last week in robotics I have mainly focussed on writing more of my research report on embedded systems, looking at Boston Dynamics’ robot dog names Spot, and more specifically looking at its ability to map its environment in real-time and autonomously navigate....
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 27, 2022 | Year 11
This week in robotics I was given my assignment – a research report on the application of an embedded system. I have to choose an embedded system and research its history of the system and it’s applications, then I’ll have to look into the technology...
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 20, 2022 | Year 11
Last week I only had 2 lessons for robotics since a public holiday took away one lesson. This meant I wasn’t able to get a whole lot done, but I decided the next thing I want to make with the Arduino kits is a kind of lock system with a relay, as in a button...
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 13, 2022 | Year 11
Over the last week of my robotics course, I have been trying to fix the errors with the code from the previous week, and make the servo motor controlled by an infra-red remote move while a button is held. I started off trying to understand the signals being printed...
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 6, 2022 | Year 11
This week I started a new project that wasn’t apart of the Arduino Tutorial booklet. This project used the concepts I had learnt about in the previous few projects, such as IR, and Servo motors. I put these two main ideas together and attempted to make a servo...
