Team Status Reports

This week we completed our final presentation (shout out Emma for presenting!) and we were able to get our boat in the pool (see images below). We put together walls on the boat, added pool noodles so that it would float, waterproofed the bottom of …

This week, our group has been focusing on the final stages of integrating in order to get the boat and camera unit assembled and into the water. Abie and Emma have been working on testing the submersible camera unit in the UC pool, and have …

Team Status Report Our waterproof motors arrived this week! This allowed us to remove the makeshift motor mounting system that we had developed (rip stem kit 🙏) and work on integrating these instead. Additionally, we set a goal of having an operational boat – out …

This week, our team made the discovery that our propeller motors – which were marketed as waterproof – are, in fact, not waterproof and cannot be submerged in water as we planned. As a team, we researched new motors and other solutions, ultimately landing on …

This week, we dedicated our lab lesson on Monday to building the structure of the boat using a plastic bowl and foam board. As mentioned last week, while we were originally planning on starting with a foam raft and later implementing a foam board boat, …

This week, our team has set a goal of being able to combine the subsystems so we have end to end operation, even if there are some bugs, by the end of next week (Friday the 21st). In order to realistically achieve this goal, we’ve …

This week (3/2-3/8) our team enjoyed a super fun spring break! Prior to that (2/23-3/1), we focused on finalizing our design details and plan in the design report. Emma set up and tested the motors for the boat, Maddie worked on the image recombination code, …

This week, our team presented the design review slides (shout out to Maddie!). We also have been working independently on our specific parts of the project. Emma was successful at setting up the Raspberry Pi and configuring the camera. We took our first photo and …

This week our team spent most of our time preparing for the design presentation next week. This involved developing our slidedeck, but, in doing so, also meant that most of our time was spent continuing to research materials and components to order. For the purpose …

The majority of our time this week was spent finalizing and rehearsing the proposal presentation (which Abie killed it presenting!) Otherwise, we’ve spent some time individually considering the subcomponents that we’re focusing on first. Because we had yet to finalize our microprocessor and camera module(s), …