Monday, July 17, 2023
Balancing Leg
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Leg + reaction wheel doing stuff
Running off a bench supply and offboard micro, controlling with a joystick. There's an IMU attached too, so hopefully soon it'll be doing some 1-DOF balancing:
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
New capacitor for Yottacoil
Another CPW, another round of tesla coiling. Last time the primary capacitor caught on fire, so I helped Michael and Austin cobble together a new one out of the Eurofarad caps the coil originally used. I designed some bus bars and MITERS undergrads got them waterjet cut for us.
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Friday, February 17, 2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Reaction wheel assembly
Someone asked what the step on the inside of the reaction wheel was for:
Monday, February 6, 2023
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Monday, January 9, 2023
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Mini Cheetah Clone First Test Drive
One of the Chinese mini cheetah clone manufacturers was nice enough to send me one. Stay tuned for a detailed (non-destructive) teardown.
Monday, August 29, 2022
More Coiling
Sunday, June 26, 2022
First outdoor tests of the screw mechanism!
Gremlins eradicated - USB hubs are bad, don't use them:
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Monday, May 9, 2022
More Screw Mechanism Testing
Now controlled over CAN and USB, using a gui based on the espresso machine software