Week 1 Term 2

Ahhhhh, a whole new fresh term. Planning where our furniture goes. We removed 3 round tables, so that's left with 3 large tables. That made our class look like their is more space. One of the fun things we did overwhelming this week was testing out the Raspberry Pi. I had to help the school to find the cheapest Raspberry PI model B+. It was a hard job to find cheap ones but eventually we did find some. The shine wall has now been made at our school. I have to say it looks amazingly awesome! I am excited about coding, I am creating a project called "Curiosity X." Curiosity X is a rover that will look for other planets that we can live on(It's just a model!). I am going to use Raspberry Pi with Arduino to control the rover. For the motor's I am going to use 120 rpm(RPM means Rotation Per Minute) 5 kg x CM torque(Torque means the pull force of the motor) that are 5 volt operating voltage. Adding the torque together, I will get round about 20 kg of pull force. The steering of my rover will be controlled by a H Bridge(An H Bridge is an electronics circuit that enables a voltage to be applied across a load in either direction). Using a software on a Raspberry Pi, I can easily control my rover using a smartphone or an computer.

Shine wall:

I based my rover with this: