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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
More research to be done
We in the electronics department still need to research some of the parts. I know how to wire most of the components, but I still need to find information about encoders. It is not easy to find information about wiring encoders, in part due to there being many different types of encoders. We are using […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Getting ready for the robot
We have been making progress in Robotics. We wired one of the battery connections using the APP cable, which took some time to find proper nuts and bolts. The Electronics department has little to do other than knowing how to wire everything together, as the robot is still in development. Once the robot is being […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Connections
The new breaker panels are definitely going to be harder to wire. There is no numbering as far as I can see, which means you have to memorize which negative connection goes with which positive connection. There doesn’t seem to be any advantage to the new design, besides the possible advantage of spreading the components […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
2007 electronic parts
We got the new electronic parts. A lot of them are really strange, and far different from the ones we were researching (2005 and 2006). The breaker panels were changed, and they have been made in a way that looks like it will be much harder to wire. There are also two breaker panels now. […]
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
Robotics intersession
I am a student on the HTH FIRST Robotics team, in the Programming/Electronics group. My aim in this class is to gain more knowledge on the subject of Electronics, while I help to design the electronics of our robot. So far the course has been time-consuming, as I have to learn many new things. […]
