by Sam Sidebotham | Sep 11, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed This week I had a couple lessons taken up by the AST. I have been dreading this for a while but the time had finally come. I sat it on the Tuesday and Wednesday and I was tired afterwards. It was actually not too bad but still it could never be good....
by Sam Sidebotham | Sep 4, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed I don’t actually know what I have done this week. My teacher was away for 2 of the 3 lessons so I didn’t get much done in the realm of inquiring about things. I used that time though to talk to another student about redesigning a hand he...
by Sam Sidebotham | Aug 28, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed There is not a lot to talk about for this week. I sat my in class test – or rather 5 of them. Among these was a robotics test, in which I had to argue a prompt and some stimulus. The prompt that I was given was about how automation has brought only...
by Sam Sidebotham | Aug 21, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed As the title suggests, PyCon was on this week and Winstons long awaited presentation finally had its chance to shine. But before that, what more was done with Winston? Winston had to have some more progress done in an attempt to make him work for...
by Sam Sidebotham | Aug 14, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed This week in robotics, I have once again continued to progress my project that is Winston. I have focussed more on trying to make him capable of walking on his own, or rather, capable of standing independently. This has proved to be tougher than...
by Sam Sidebotham | Aug 7, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed I spent most of this week looking back at the mechanical issues presented by Winston. This was mainly about trying to get the 12V 12A battery to work. This battery has scared me. We have already had one incident where someone has broken one of these,...
