The Grand Finale (S2, Wk16)

Work I Completed This is the final blog post I may ever make, what a monumental moment. In terms of work (of which there is not much…), I spent this week trying to make finishing touches to WINSTON. It did not work out in my favour. I ended up breaking a new...

Second Last Week?? (S2, Wk13)

Work I Completed This week was spent working on testing more ideas for Winston. I have learnt once again why exactly I should start earlier. I tried a couple more times with the band that broke – during PyCon the pulley belt acting as a tendon snapped (luckily after...

Presentation and Motors (S2, Wk11)

Work Completed This week in robotics and mechatronics was more on theory and practice presentations. Our last round of presentations in semester 1 (i believe) went pretty well. I scored pretty highly in that which has given me a confidence boost in my ability to...

Final Term (S2, Wk11)

Work I Completed This week marks the beginning of the final term of year 12. That means that, including this, 5 blog posts remain. Both exciting and scary. Anyway, this first week back meant little (no) progress with Winston, and as such this entry may be a little...

More on Motors (S2, Wk10)

What I Completed In the final week of school for the term, I didn’t do too much in the way of work related to Winston. I did spend some of the time looking at alternatives for his legs, but didn’t do any maths or design for it yet. I was looking at how...

Young ICT Explorers (S2, Wk9)

Work I Completed This week was focussed on getting ready for the Young ICT Explorers (YICTE) Competition. This was different to any competition I had done thus far as it was a presentation. Most competitions I participate in are either CTFs, or various coding...