by Sam Sidebotham | May 7, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed This week I have been looking more into motors, both at what is available and what is practical. I am leaning towards the idea of using the somewhat bigger motors, the HS-311, for the main four joints, and using the smaller SG90s for the other eight....
by Sam Sidebotham | May 1, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed This week is the first week back this term, and as such there wasn’t too much work that has been completed. One of our group members for the walking quadruped robot didn’t show up a lot last semester, but him being here this week meant...
by Sam Sidebotham | Apr 2, 2023 | Year 12
Work I completed This week in class, I have continued work on Winston, establishing a power consumption requirement, and learning more about the parts that will go into making it all work. To begin looking at the requirements for the battery, we needed a list of all...
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 26, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed: This week in IT we discussed the possibility of entering the recently announced PyCon in Adelaide. To do this, we would have to have made some impressive project that uses python. The issue I initially had when this came up is that, by doing...
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 19, 2023 | Year 12
Work I Completed This week in Robotics I have been looking into designing the chassis of Winston Mk III. I have used this as an opportunity to write down all the components I am going to need, or at least what I think I will need, in order to know what to have room...
by Sam Sidebotham | Mar 13, 2023 | Year 12
Work I completed This week was my ICAW – In Class Assessment Week – which meant that there were no classes for four of the five days. This means that there was very little opportunity to work on anything relating to my project in or out of class. During this ICAW, I...
