The Search and Rescue Robot

This Blog was created by Philippe Pierre-Paul, Bismark Polley, Anthony Giamella and Tom O'gara. We are freshman Engineering students attending the Stevens Institute of Technology. It will follow our 6 week Search and Rescue Robot Design 2 Project.

July 10, 2009

Fresh Tech Out the Boxx

Hey Guys,

The new site is up at http://www.freshtechoutthebox.com/

Use this link to submit posts.

http://freshtechoutthebox.com/submit

Thanks!

Phil

June 21, 2009

New Technology Site

Hey Guys,

I am preparing to launch a new blog called "Fresh Tech Out the Box" and I would like to invite you guys to contribute. Fresh Tech will be dedicated to everything in the technical world, whether there are new products coming out, applications, industry concepts, career opportunities or good old open source/hacking tips. As fellow Engineering students, I know yous guys are pretty involved with the technical world and that is why I am inviting you guys to participate. Shoot me an email or reply to this posted if you are interested.

Hope Summer is going well,

Phil

April 23, 2009

Extra Lab Hours

Hey Team,
My 6:00PM class is cancelled for tonight so I will be at the lab tonight.

-Phil

April 21, 2009

Weekly Update #3

Hey everyone,

So far progress on the robot has been awesome. Although we had to make some significant changes to the initial design, it can now drop two payloads at once, in two different locations. In fact, the changes to the design were even used as a basis for Experiment #3!

Phil has nearly completed the programming aspect; the LabView VI effectively controls the joystick, only now we just need to connect it to the finished robot in order to demonstrate it's potential.

The hardware construction of the robot is also nearly complete. The new arm assembly has been completed, now it just needs to be attached to the rest of the robot, which is supported by a balance mechanism. We also need to wire everything together; luckily we were able to obtain a spare circuit this week, significantly reducing the construction time.

Ultimately, this coming week the robot will be completed and tested. Given the extraordinary progress Design Spine has made in all aspects of this project, I can only see much success in this robot's performance.

- Anthony

April 20, 2009

Experiment 3

Hey Everyone,
Experiment 3 is due tomorrow plus on top of that, we have a huge chemstry test. I have collected the data for the experiment so all we have to do is format it in a report. I leave work at 4 today so I should be back in Hoboken by 5. I am free anytime after that so lets select a time for us to meet up and finish quickly so we can study for chem.

-Phil