12/13/2020 0 Comments Week 12: The end...This week was quite strange for a couple reasons. It felt weird not planning another stage of my project for the next week or buying parts to use on a part of the project that I needed to finish. I knew that whatever I had done at the end of Sunday night was all I was going to get done for a while. Also I had to make a presentation for the class by Sunday night which turned out to be kinda stressful.
At the beginning of the week I was pulling some late nights huddled beside a heater trying to put everything together and finish. Then when I was so close to being done my fears came true and the electronics fried and the joint between the wheel and motor had popped off. This was something that I had been messing with for a while and apparently did not calculate correctly. It was a huge bummer because there was no way that I could get the parts I needed and finish in time. So I decided to lean onto what I had learned through this process and not the actual project. I then had to make a presentation that I spent a long time on. I looked over the rubric and tips and youtube videos and other random sources for a good presentation because I really did not want a bad grade on this project. I had my whole family look over the presentation multiple times and tell me what they thought and even presented to my friends (which was weird). I animated and deleted and added so many slides it's kind of embarrassing. With that said overall this experience has been great and I’m glad I got to do this project. If I had the chance to do this for all of my classes I would definitely do it. Also I do think that I am going to finish this project eventually I am just going to wait for warmer weather.
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12/6/2020 0 Comments Week 11: Finishing TouchesI had some issues with the wheel and the motor attachment. The dowel rod that was supposed to go into the inside of the wheel did not stay when I turned on the motor. What I ended up doing is putting glue around the shaft of the motor and sticking it into the wheel. This took forever because I needed to wait for glue and epoxy to dry which took forever and multiple days because it was too cold to wait all night.
The next thing I did while waiting for the wheel joint to dry is I soldered everything else that needed to be soldered with the exception of the motor for now. I soldered the part that connected to the motor and the arduino. I also attached the remote to the handle with some zip ties. This works pretty well considering the fact that I only needed the trigger. Also it was basically free because it was from an old remote control car. Which basically free is pretty nice when you are trying to keep the price of the project down. Also I attached the motor to the handle that I had to use my 5th wheel for the part of the project. I figured that I would put a piece of wood or metal through the top of the handle. The reason for this is so that when you aren’t going up hill you don’t have to hold the handle up. I also had to test the project but that will have to wait because it is so cold. Also I had to finally attach the motor to the other pieces I soldered which I had to wait to do because the glue still needed to dry. |
AuthorI'm Alex and this is my progress for my Genius Hour project of making an electric longboard. Archives
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