Mozilla IoT Troubleshooting

Headaches, Headaches, and more Headaches After trying to open up the socket connection and send data back to the Unity code I quickly ran into… Headaches. First whatever package Mozilla used in their example completely blocked me out from using sockets while their code was running so I couldn’t actually send data back once the […]

Mozilla IoT with Unity

Last time I worked on this project I concluded that I needed to use a Raspberry Pi as a proxy that communicated with Unity and created the devices. To get this working I created a Unity tag that is labeled UnityLight. I wrote a script that then searches through all the GameObjects and finds […]

Part Sorter Using Google Coral

We’ve been fantasizing about this project for the last three years. Techgarage seems to create hundreds and hundreds of random parts at random locations and we need a way to sort all of them. Typically we do it by hand using a bit of labor but its just to slow and Techagarage still looks like […]

Mozilla IoT for RDL

IoT which stands for the Internet of Things is an elusive term that I never really bothered with understanding. I thought it was just the general term used by non-engineers to describe how everything was connected… Oh, how I was wrong. As part of the design process for RDL or Robot Drone League game, we […]

Slidemap V10.1 Linear Actuator(Sort of)

I decided to pop into Techgarage for an hour or two today and start taking apart V10. However, I quickly got sidetracked and began to create a prototype linear actuator based off of my CAD design from yesterday. Like I said before the main goal of these linear actuators is to a create a compact […]

Slidemap V10 or Should I Say 10.1

So the parts I ordered finally came in and I was able to put a solid six-hour day in at Techgarage building Slidemap V10 based off of my CAD. When I initially designed this version I intended for it to be a solid machine with rigidity and enough power to support high loads. While this […]

2019 AAU Decathalon

I just finished the 2019 AAU decathlon this weekend! I started doing the decathlon last year and made it to nationals but decided not to go and to try and get better so I could come back this year. For those of you who don’t know what Decathalon is it is a two-day-long track event […]

Pitching Practice

Working on my pitching form to get ready for the big game this week!

Fourth of July Fishing

Just like every other year, we headed down to the Keys for the Fourth of July. We went down with my family and my friend Carstens family and did a lot of fishing and snorkeling before watching the fireworks. Also featured is my first big fish that I really did not want to hold but […]

Introducing Techgarage Summer Camp

Techgarage summer camp is finally a thing! FAU Highschool gave us their highschool space for four weeks to let us do a tech summer camp. 5257 ERX members acted as counselors and helped teach the campers in the program how to build robots.