@EvanGan7+Day 67 of #100-days-in-public.
Today is my last day in Houston. Today my robotics team (and many others) visited the Johnson space center. We got to see a space shuttle mock up and also the old mission control center which is over the new one. Overall, I had quite the time in Houston and look forwards to returning some day for robotics or rockets. Tomorrow should be back to normal updates, where I hope to improve my blot pathing planner.
@dainfloop0decided to make a discord bot to help manage stuff i'll be hosting on nest, makes it easier to handle everything and also because other people contribute to projects i'm planning to host
@EvanGan7+Day 52 of #100-days-in-public.
Today my team played in the playoffs of the New England district championships(first robotics). We had quite a few interesting matches and ended up making it to the semifinals of our division. I visited the Hack Club table again and had an interesting conversation about onboard and got to take a close up look at some of the boards made for onboard. I was quite surprised at how small the via's were in real life.
Also during the time between matches I walked over to the Starwars droid makers area and got to learn how they make their droids! Basically they use off the shelf components for the electronics, like scooter motors to drive, Arduino's to control some subsystems, a slip ring that connects to the dome(for continuous rotation), and LED's for all the lights. For the body of the droid some 3D print it in the winter and sand/paint it in the summer to get a clean finish.@EvanGan7+Day 51 of #100-days-in-public.
Today was quite exciting. I said hi to the folks staffing the hack club table, got to see a s'more making machine made by a fellow FRC team, and saw a helicopter with a chainsaw cutting trees very close to power lines. Our robot also broke in a pretty interesting way, when we tried to climb with only one of the two hooks, the rope pulling the hooks managed to bend one of the eye bolts that was routed through into kind of a curly brace.
@EvanGan7+Day 49 of #100-days-in-public.
Getting pretty cramped in my PCB design. Going to be at the New England district championship for first robotics tomorrow-Saturday, and am going to try to post some robotics related scrapbooks!
@Domsson0Made a platform for my Raspberry Pi Pico robot from plastic and wood waste!
@sahitid0:kitty-dance: 🌸 *days of service ship incoming:*:kitty-dance: 🌸
Blossom 🌸 was held in Atlanta, Georgia from March 15-16th.
working closely with the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta :girl-scouts:, i had the privilege of organizing a day-long event that brought together a team of high school female mentors and dozens of eager girl scouts. beginner girl scouts embarked on exciting journeys - from crafting their own PCB :pcb: keychains that they later had manufactured through #onboard to delving into an introduction of javascript :js: to code drawings on #blot the drawing robot. every girl went home with a unique new hardware or software project that they 100% created themselves, but most importantly, the confidence needed to pursue coding further :blobheart:.
we also had a brilliant dinner (with ricotta balls :blobby-doughnut:) the night before with 28+ women in technology and STEM who guided us with their stories and experiences in their fields. all the high school mentors and i were fueled for the day ahead of us by the end of the night:half-salute:.
it was so motivating to see girls who had never touched code before leaving the event with the confidence that they had a place in the world of technology & finished projects that they could show off.
🔗 website: blossom.hackclub.com:githubparrot: github repo: github.com/hackclub/blossom
📷 day of service photos: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-XnTK7QPwufdo4flwsF7syqOoZwB0z6C?usp=sharing
🥂 women in STEM dinner photos: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-WR0RY4SCYAOzAD3T-Z6aT0_DYBsNGgj?usp=sharingthank you to @MariannaLudensky@NilaRam@christina695 & the whole <!subteam^S06A2EGQ29M|@blossom-team> for the wonderful event we pulled off, hopefully inspiring many girls along with each other through the process.
@EvanGan7+Day 45 of #100-days-in-public.
Today I continued worked on a blower for robotics to blow open the trap(weighted flap). We did more testing with some success but deemed the blower not powerful enough. Instead we tried just shooting into it and had lots of replaceable success where we shot the note(12" foam ring) into the trap.
We also ended up rebuilding the leaf blower we used for the blower and it miraculously still works good as new! When I got home I played around with it a bit and levitated basketball 3 feet away from the nozzle of the blower. Unfortunately I did not get a video, but perhaps I will take a video tomorrow and post it.@EvanGan7+Day 41 of #100-days-in-public.
Today I played around with routing on my PCB a bit more in the free time I had.
At robotics today I took apart a leaf blower to salvage the blade to use for our robot to open a flap in the game field. I was quite surprised how small the blade was for how strong the blower is.
@EvanGan7+Day 38 of #100-days-in-public.
Today I began to start brainstorm a fun hackathon idea, and I plan to start writing an outline for it in the coming days to see how much it would theoretically cost to run.
On another note, I was at the Revere FRC event today and did not time to work on my RP2040 project. The image attached is a photo of the innards of our robot typically covered up by our sponsor panel.
@karmanyaahm1I met a robot tour guide today at AHG (realizing I should have taken better pictures)
@Kieran0day 12 of #100-days-in-public; today i was mad at robot code (wheels on the robot won't auto align); also did homework and too much spanish for one day
@Kieran0day 11 of #100-days-in-public; (i guess the grind never stops :) ); today i worked on trying to get a slack bot setup with bun, tldr it didn't work. garmin also refused me access to the developer program :tw_cry:
@Kieran0day 10 of #10-days-in-public! we've done it! today I mostly coded for my teams robot and got shooting, climbing, and arm elevation working! I also submitted a garmin developer api request and did some dev tools sluthing to find the unoffical apis for integration with my website. to bask in the glory of a whole 10 days completed you can still view stats at m.kieranklukas.com/s/10daysinpublic including detailed stats per user at m.kieranklukas.com/s/10daysinpublic/userid@EvanGan7+Day 8 of #10-days-in-public.
Today I worked on a side project, but did pick out a button for my PCB after learning about different types of buttons. The side project I worked on is a program to get all the match data in FRC history from The Blue Alliance. With that program I wrote I found that the red alliance has 98404 win's and the blue alliance has 86987 win's as of me last running it in 2023. Once this robotics season is over I want to use it to find some statistics and try to predict scores for future games. I have attached I attached the output(named "nodeTestOutput") from when I ran it in post 2023 season and the program that I wrote to create the data dump.
@Kieran0Day 6 of #10-days-in-public: i was way too busy with school and robotics today to work on my website but I got to go to a maple syrup farm on a field trip and work on my teams robot; only one auto mishap today!
@adammakesthings1Yet another missed scrapbook day! (i am very bad at this)
Spent 4 solid hours teaching fellow students to use the laser cutter/dealing with problems, then helped out with a middle school robotics program. In other news working on a new project 👀 (i cannot stop starting new projects and never finishing them please help :tw_sob:)
@NilaRam0Made a slack bot that will notify me every time a new female hack clubber joins our slack so I can welcome them and help them find projects to contribute in and even connect them to the #days-of-service initiative!
@jc0day 2 of #bci! today my goals were to get the hang of using kicad, understand the schematic of openbci's cyton board (which is, along with hackEEG and piEEG, the basis for a lot of our understanding of what exactly happens in EEG boards) and spin up a bill of materials for everything going in our pcb. i got to the first two and didn't do the last one (although i will eventually get to it!), but i had a lot of fun! today was another great day because this is the most fun i've had in a while building shtuff (among other things: deciding who would be who in the openai drama, the f*ckboard, dinner at steve). tomorrow's goal is to spend the whole day just building the actual pcb (and then spend thanksgiving off?) we're building this out in the open so my daily notes are all here: cloud-ckujstd4d-hack-club-bot.vercel.app/0jc_0e4ee6c5e5e546ce910bda3e3ad2ac10.pdf
(this is part of #100-days! join us over there, we're working on cool stuff like #apocalypse and #dallas-day-of-service!)
@jc0day 1 of #bci! i mostly got caught up on a bunch of things today (including, but not limited to: parts of the brain, eeg concepts like the 10-20 system, reading schematics, understanding what exactly we’re doing including the process of actually designing the eeg circuit: electrodes -> ads1299 (including digital to analog converter) -> microcontroller -> computer for extra processing - so many black boxes we’re trying to figure out!) and generally feel like i’m ready to start playing around with kicad/observing tomorrow! today was a great day overall, although we think we could have focused a bit more and it still feels like i don’t know anything. tomorrow’s goal is to build shit which is the easiest way to understand stuff. we're building this out in the open so my daily notes are all here: cloud-6crgvlqrj-hack-club-bot.vercel.app/0jc_e4acbe3e3aff48778866059bb21c78be.pdf
(this is part of #100-days! join us over there, we're working on cool stuff like #nanowrimo and #polyglot-warriors!)
@karmanyaahm1Don't have pictures of the whole thing but I got recruited onto chessbot ig, an electromagnet CNC drags the chess pieces around
@dominic0I made @upsanddowns to act as Jia for #up-vs-down - assigns new members a team, makes sure people count correctly, and resets the game at 100 or -100. this was my first time making a slack bot - slack bots are fun!
on github at mrhappyma/slack-ups-and-downs, or go count in #up-vs-down to see it in action!
@karmanyaahm1Using ROS2's multi device communication to send Intel realsense camera data from a Jetson nano to my laptop@leom0Today I got a drink from this café. Not too many employees around to see…
@Marios0Sinerider Reddit Bot time :ultrafastparrot:
@karmanyaahm1Soldering male connectors to the headers on an Arduino Nano (We have to get Mr. Robot done next week and don't have time to order proper jumpers 🙃)
@msw0Here’s a robot that @ella built drawing art I had chatgpt make for me!@Marios0Worked on the Sinerider Reddit Bot! :)
@karmanyaahm1Restoring Mr Robot with Vex Cortex and ROBOTC milestone (with @Jaxzog)! The master brain is now talking to the follower and successfully sending values over UART!@sporeball0lucy-bot learned about attackers and defenders, which might help her calm down just a bit
@sporeball0lucy-bot learned about captures and checks. now she'll use them to perform a dead-simple evaluation
@Samarth_Verulkar0Completed coding for Reddit2Insta bot that pulls posts from Reddit and posts them to Instagram will be uploaded soon to my GitHub account.
