So it finally comes to this. My final blog post. Well, not my final final blog post. I do plan to leave behind some extra resources in...

This is my second to last blog post on this site. The weekly blog will come to an end next week. Let's jump into it. My chessboard is...

This week I modeled the outer holder for the chess clock project. It took a few tries though since I ended up with some of the holes...

The chess clock has progressed well. I managed to iron out the wrinkles in the code and then made the PCB design. However, the first cut...

I swear, the title isn't nonsense, just let me explain. This week I found myself quite dejected. I'd resoldered all I could think of in...

I am fairly angry about the situation I am in, as I currently have three malfunctioning boards soldered, and I cannot discern why that...

This week I tried replacing the hall effect sensor on the board that was acting up, however that didn't seem to fix the issue. I've been...

So I started off this week attempting to fix an error on my main board that was causing everything to overheat, and was also causing...

So we returned from February Break and my boards had finally arrived, however immediately there were some issues with the boards. The...

Following last weeks post, an incident occurred in which I fried 5 out of 8 of the boards inside of my chessboard. I was testing the...

For the most part the chessboard project is nearing completion. My final tasks are remaking the main board and souping up the code. I've...

It's finally done. I have finally soldered all eight of the boards, which means that the majority of the work is finished. I spent this...

I didn't make much progress this week, due to MLK day and a Mock Trial taking me out for two days this week, so I only worked for two...

So this week was a strange week, with the classroom being flooded on Wednesday resulting in a somewhat lowered amount of work. This week,...

Happy New Year! We hopped straight back to work here in the Robotics Shop, as I immediately got to work soldering the final three boards...

This week began on a high, I finished the second board inside of the chessboard, bringing me up to two completed rows. Unfortunately, I...

This has been a massively productive week. The new boards came in on Tuesday and I got the whole thing fully soldered up over the time of...

I have wasted the past two days. This is a travesty. Let's start with the good of this week. The circuit boards came in on Tuesday, so I...

This week, I finally created a 3D model of the chessboard, similar to the prior specifications that Josh used in his own version of the...

The majority of this week has been spent working on the PCBs for the Chessboard Project, with Monday mostly spent attempting to wire a...