by Sam Sidebotham | Nov 8, 2023 | Year 12
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...
by Sam Sidebotham | Oct 30, 2023 | Year 12
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...
by Sam Sidebotham | Oct 22, 2023 | Year 12
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...
by Sam Sidebotham | Oct 16, 2023 | Year 12
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...
by Sam Sidebotham | Oct 13, 2023 | Year 12
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...
by Sam Sidebotham | Sep 18, 2023 | Year 12
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...