This week, I started working on an old Variac, in the hopes of using it to power my hot-wire foam cutter. So far, it's not looking great. The Variac ...
On Thursday this week, I continued to work on solving the Variac problem. I didn't get much of anywhere, as every Variac that I found instructions fo...
On Tuesday this week, I used the Ifixit toolkit I was given to disassemble my laptop and clean it out. I then reassembled it. I spent the rest of the...
This week, I worked mainly on the wind tunnel project. I started by moving the blowers down and performing tests on them for exhaust velocity. I deci...
On Friday this week, I began prototyping a method for transitioning the circular output of the blower into a square wind tunnel. I received an Ifixit...
On Wednesday this week, I moved the blowers from Dr. Bill's car down to the downstairs room. I tested out multiple blowers, and found that teh 8 inch...
On Monday this week, I spent a lot of the class listening to wand working with the projects already underway at the Energy Lab. I learned about the R...
this week, I continued to help Will with his radio telescope. I helped him set it up, and adjust its position and elevation to reduce data artifacts....
On Thursday this week, I looked at and discussed other projects available to me. I am looking at building an extremely large aircraft to create preci...
On Tuesday this week, I helped Will diagnose some of his radio telescope. After it got moved, I helped him reset it at the computer, and started look...
This week, I largely helped Will to improve his radio telescope setup. First, I helped him to uninstall his old telescope and replace it with a far m...
Wednesday this week, I helped Will to move his radio telescope from one place to another. I started by taking down the dish from its pole, and then m...
Monday this week, I charged and flew the Mavic 2 Enterprise. Starting from the E-Lab, I measured the distance to each corner of campus. I then used b...
This week, I flew the drone around HPA some. During this time, I took a look at various hot and cold spots on campus, and tried to get a fix on their...
On Thursday this week, I downloaded Stellarium, worked with Will on how to get telescopes functioning, and installed a fan in the downstairs room. Cu...
On Tuesday this week, I flew the drone for some time around the HPA campus. The thermal imaging in this case turned up some interesting things. It sh...
This week, I set up Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on the computers, helped Will to set up his radio telescope, Got the Mavic 2 Enterprise running, ...
Over Wednesday and Thursday, I gathered some thermal imaging proving out how water leaks would affect ground temperature. The three main results are ...
On Wednesday this week, I continued to charge the batteries for the drone. I also helped Will to set up a rudimentary radio telescope(the dish). At t...
On Monday this week, I helped Alec to download MSFS2020 onto the large computer in the robotics area. I also began working with getting the drone set...
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