Monthly Archives: December 2013

Week 15 Journal Entry by Frank Mason

“We’re changing the world with technology.” -Bill Gates For this week, we have been implementing all of the pieces of the hardware (Arduino Board, servo motors, waveshield, amplifier, etc.) into the Hell Rabbit. So far, we have been mostly successful … Continue reading

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Journal 12-2-13

ON TUESDAY, December 3rd, we were able to make some solid progress with the submarine, although there is still quite a ways to go. The exterior hull is complete (sanded, supports bonded etc.) and we are now moving to attaching … Continue reading

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Journal Post #? – More Parts + Wiring Prep

Like Michael, I too had a productive day. But alas, not without completing what seemed like a Harold & Kumar-esque journey. Below are the final pieces to the puzzle I was able to obtain for the project. Pictured above are: … Continue reading

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Journal – Week X

Today, with no classes and a postponed speech assignment, I was able to spend a good chunk of the afternoon and evening working on the LED strips. I was so productive, I felt it was worthy of a mid-week makeup … Continue reading

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Journal 14: John Moya

Today, the guys finished up putting the bunny together, they pout the led’s on place, we test it out and It worked fine, the only thing was that we had to change the amplifier for a smaller one so we … Continue reading

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Journal 14

At this point, my group has everything we need in terms of physical parts except for one LED strip. The company sent us a(n) LED strip that looked used. When we got the Led strip it had black ashes on … Continue reading

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Week 14 – Conceptual Animated GIF & USB Terminals

I decided to make a rough animated gif of the areas on the jacket we want to light up (for a visual reference). The basic idea is that we could rotate through colors and program in chase patterns, etc. Upon … Continue reading

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Week 14 Journal – Turkeys, iThings, and Firemen

I honestly didn’t get nearly as much done this past week as I wanted – Thanksgiving travel and activities pretty much gobbled Wednesday through Sunday. I did get the strip-to-connector-cables soldering done though, and it went pretty well from what … Continue reading

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Week 14 – We had a couple of booboos

Who knew that a tiny quadcopter could be mischeavous. When we thought there was one mode, there were two. When we thought we needed more power for the quad, it comes in and it weighs too much and we can’t … Continue reading

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Week 14-It was going so well……

This week it all went to s**t. We were on a roll, we had gotten most of the mersurments that we needed for power and we had ordered the new battery that we need to help power it all. We … Continue reading

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