We reinforced one of our tables to support our test tank and filled it with water. We hooked up a new wide angle camera that we purchased and tested it. The prototype electronics container was tested and wired. We came up with a company name and began to add content to the technical report outline. [...]
The design of the ROV is a little behind schedule. The mission props were all completed so we can start testing with them. A new layout for the website was presented to the team and the team suggested changes to it. The schedule for the rest of the year was presented to the team. An [...]
A group led the testing of ideas for the tether for this year’s robot. We know that we cannot use foam for buoyancy as we have in years past, as it will compress too much and lose its buoyant force forty feet underwater. We started work on the first prototype for the well cap. The [...]
After some debate and discussion the team agreed that we are going to standardize our robot on the robot for this year. We agreed that our hardware (like the nuts and bolts) will be using standard measurements, while all other dimensions, like the ROV dimensions, will be using metric units. We developed a timeline for [...]
MATE released our game the day before. We voted on a logo for the team. We broke into two separate groups to read the rules for this year. After reading the rules separately we came back together as a team and each group gave their interpretation of the rules. This made sure that we read [...]
This was a training day for the team. A safety presentation and PowerPoint was led by the team captain. One of our mentors presented a basic introduction to the field of underwater robotics. A group of people worked on programming our old robot for practice while new members practiced using the tools in the lab. [...]
Jesuit Robotics has put together an impressive ROV Pilot training video. This video will be able to teach all young ROV pilots what they need to know to pilot their own ROVs. If you follow our AMAZING piloting program, you can be just as cool as we are, and pilot your ROV with style! Go [...]
Jesuit Robotics spent today finishing our lab cleanup. We installed new industrial shelving units, rebuilt our network, ,set-up dual monitors on two computers, and played with our new lathe.
All of the Jesuit Robotics website has been updated for the 2009 season! Changes include: New Icon (see your url box!) New Theme (it’s our teams colors now!) New gallery (pictures of the 2009 season!) The people page has this years staff. We have our logo uploaded and embedded in our site header! Our blog [...]
Our robotics labs is getting all cleaned up for the new season! Today we cleaned out all of our supplies in preparation for a workbench area to be torn out. We also cleaned up our website. It’s basically our early christmas gift to ourselves.