Daily Post

5/12/16
Today Quinn and Emilia worked on waterproofing the motors. They used electrical tape to cover all the holes, then drilled holes in the film canisters for the motors. We started working on the tethers as class was ending.

Marie finished cutting the PVC drilled holes in the PVC pipes for the motor and so the air can escape. 

Merrill continued working on the soldering the control box. Next class she's going to finish putting the control box together!

5/13/2016

Today Marie worked on finishing getting all of the motor mounts drilled onto the frame. Then she got the frame of the ROV assembled and got the net attached so that come next they will be able to attach the motors onto the frame to test the ROV in water.  

Today Emilia and Quinn waterproofed the motors and then assembled the propellers onto the motors. For next class they will be putting the motors and propellers onto the frame for the in water test. 

 

Today Merrill finished the control box and got everything all soldered together. After that she helped with the waterproofing of the thrusters. Next class she is going to get the control box all set up and attached to the tether so that the thrusters will work in the pool games.

5/16/16

Today Emilia and Marie worked together on adjusting the buoyancy of the ROV and then taking it out to the pool for its first pool test. They also worked on starting the modification process to make the ROV that much more productive. 

5/20/16

Today Marie, Quinn and Merrill bought supplies to create a claw appendage to complete two of the tasks using hydraulics. We spend $9.25 on tape, tongs, syringes and tubing to do this. We used tape and zip ties to attach the tongs to the ROV, then we taped one syringe to one handle of the tongs. We left the other handle of the tong to be pushed by the water through the tube as the other syringe is pushed down. Next class we will attach the tubing to the tether and we will also fix the buoyancy issues caused by adding more weight to one side of the ROV.

5/24/16

Today our team got the hydraulic arm on our ROV working and assembled. The team then took the ROV out to the kitty pool for the last time before going over to the big pool next class. After adjusting buoyancy and making sure all the parts of the ROV worked in the kitty pool our team attached the velcrow swatches that will be used as a mantle for the camera which we will test for the first time next class.

Merrill pushing air bubbles out of the hydraulic tubing to make sure that our compression is as efficient as possible.