First Day at max Planck!

As we all know I am a bit of a nerd. I recently got accepted into the Max Planck Honors Program at FAU. Max Planck is a world-renowned neuroscience research institute based out of Germany. They have the most Nobel prize winners out of any other research institute and they happen to a have a […]

RDL Preparation

First thing I did today was going to the college club rush for the robotics club I am apart of. I am the secretary for Inspire Robotics engineering club at Florida Atlantic University. Even though I am still in highschool they still allowed me to join the club and all of the officers for the […]

Slidemap 10.1 Update

For the past two days, I have been having some adventures with stepper motors. First I needed to try and get it working with the part sorter. In the process of doing so, I broke the Makerbase controller that I was going to use for Slidemap. I still had the Ramps 1.4 controller as a […]

Part Sorter V2.0 Module

Today I worked on finally creating the part sorter module that I had cadded. The basic premise is that I have two laser cut panels attached with gorail and a stepper motor is mounted in between to the top plate. The stepper motor will have a gear on top of it, which I am still […]

Part Sorter V2.0!

I decided to sit down yesterday and start cadding a brand new version of the part sorter. I had a few requirements for the design process. Easily Scalable and Stackable Small Size Low Cost I had a few ideas to do this the first was to use lazy susan mounted to a gobilda frame and […]

FRC Season Begins Already

Today was the club rush for my highschool meaning as captain of the FRC team I had to be there to try and recruit new Freshmen. Last year we struggled to get any members who would stick around but it really wasn’t a problem with the program or team it was a problem with passion. […]

New Techgarage Tables

Since Techgarage started we have been using the same plastic picnic tables to do all of our work. That just wasn’t optimal or right, while the people working at Techgarage are kids they are also engineers and engineers deserve a nice spacious workspace. So for this RDL season, we decided to create our own inexpensive […]

Slidemap V10.1 Frame Done!

I spent about two hours today assembling the rest of the linear actuators. I obviously couldn’t attach stepper motors because I am still trying to find ones that will work well but I was able to get it all mechanically sound. I also still need a few rods for the z-axis but those can wait […]

Slidemap v10.1 Linear Actuator(Working!)

I headed over to Techgarage today with my limited time and worked on assembling the first linear actuator for Slidemap v10.1 because the parts came in. I built it quickly which was good and I realized that my design has very easy access to all screws and holes which will be extremely useful when I […]

Mozilla IoT Framework complete!

After three long days of work, the framework and API is finally complete. Today I restarted my code from scratch with the fresh thoughts I had to work from. I knew I needed to run the device server in a thread. It took a bit of tinkering but I finally figured out why that error […]