Update of the week

Matt Cottam of Tellart has been my self appointed mentor/friend for over a year now, but recently I have been working on a project with him that can be seen in the video below. It is a really simple concept, but thinks kept getting the way. The hall sensor is a 5v chip, and the board is 3.3v so I just added a 5v step-up board. However, that required too much power so i had to solder it directly to the battery terminals. Well, then I had a problem where the hall sensor we are using also required it be reset after being powered up. So the power to it turns on then cuts off for a second when booting up. The piezo-electric buzzer was also to quiet at first, but I found that by putting a small magnet on the back of it they became much louder. This all seems to work now, but it was a trip getting everything to work as one.

Job update: I won’t say who they are, but I have interviewed with a few places now, and some things seem like they are going pretty well. Im not sure where I will end up after school as of now, but it will be fun finding out. I have also been contacting other places just incase, but on a few of them, I was just told that they are not hiring this year.

I know a while ago I talked about my wood block project. It didnt die, just put on hold. I have CNC (thanks Zack) two of them so far, and I hope before graduation I will have 6 done. Here is the starting of one of them. (pics and video)

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