This robotics crew is DEDICATED! Six 8th graders gave up a significant portion of their Saturday to continue working on the underwater robot! With the end of the school year looming in the air, we felt we needed a large block of time to forge ahead with the project. Today was the day - and what a great day it was!
Josh and Nick brought their father in to show him the robot - he just happens to be an electrician! He took a quick look at our electrical connections because we hadn't yet been able to get a signal through the DVD player. The good news was that we had everything connected correctly - good job team! The only mistake we had made was not connecting one of the grounding wires; once that was done - we had imaging!
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Nick anxiously awaits an image on the DVD player!
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Success! Nick and Chloe check out the first images!
Mr. Pfosi was not, however, particularly impressed with our soldering work! He graciously took the time to show us the proper technique and assisted us with fixing some of our earlier soldering work! Thank you Mr. Pfosi!
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Mr. Pfosi teaches his son Josh, and the group, proper soldering technique!
After having some fun playing with the camera, we got back to work! We mounted the remaining two motors onto the robot frame, made the tether, and started assembling the control box.
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Maddie checks out how the camera works!
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Building the tether!
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Josh drills the control box!
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Hilary takes a turn drilling the contol box!
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Getting the switches onto the control box takes lots of hands!
We were also thrilled to see we had some questions in the "Ask the Team" forum of our web page, so we took a few moments to answer the questions. Thanks for writing to us- it's neat to know people are "watching"!
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Josh and Hilary answer the questions from the "Ask the Team" forum!
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The group proudly admires their work!
Great day everyone!