This week I just did some small cleaning projects and got ready for the end of the year. I copied a lot of my project files into personal...

This week (6/2) I worked on making a small wooden music box for fun. The box plays a few notes when a button is pressed. This is the CAD...

This week I worked on a small project, making a wood/acrylic Go board, which is a board game slightly similar to checkers. I started with...

This week I was waiting for a new collet I ordered to arrive in the mail, so I spent most of the week doing cleaning jobs around the shop...

This week I tested a few different ways to fix the problems that I've been having with my balancing rig. I also finally got to do a full...

I didn't do much work on my code this week, but I thought I would make a post explaining my code in detail now that I'm getting closer to...

I spent this week testing my newly assembled balancing rig. I started by transferring all the code and circuits from my PD testing ramp,...

This week I focused on some small tweaks and design changes for my balancing rig before I start assembling everything. First, I had to...

This week I continued assembling the design I had made the week prior. The old motor pins I was using snapped off inside the gimbals,...

This week I moved on from my PD control tester and started taking the code that I had made and applying it to my monorail. I started by...

This week I continued trying to get my PID balance ramp to work. Originally, I was trying to use a quadratic equation to control my...

This week I worked on a motor driven ramp to test PID loops, so I know how to use them when I implement them into my monorail. I followed...

This week I spent working on a PID controller that I could implement into a testing rig. The rig balances a ball rolling along a track....

This week I spent testing out my new socket for my flywheels, which I 3d printed. The socket had 3 holes where the mounting screws will...

I spent the better part of this week doing research on a feedback loop for my monorail, as I've realized in the past few weeks that...

Last week, I was testing the new motor mounts by stacking both of my flywheels on one motor and testing the mounts with them. This worked...

This week I made a lot of progress on my flywheel design, because I found out that the motors I have actually came with mounts to attach...

The first part of this week I spent trying to balance my gyroscopes, as the imperfections in my machining was causing a lot of vibration,...

I spent this week machining aluminum flywheels to use on my gyroscopes, because the Acrylic ones I've been using aren't heavy enough to...

This week I continued making new iterations of the balancing rig, and finally got the measurements right between the bed and the swivels,...