Week 6 & 7: School Board Meeting, pneumatic cylinders, lasers and Manta Project.

Last week team member, Collin Curtis worked on the pneumatic cylinders for the claw/gripper on his ROV and was figuring out the C++ Programming. He is currently trying the make the cylinders actuate.

Collin programming the cylinders

Madi Howard positioning the lasers on E Chassis system

Last week the Open ROV team collaborated the lasers to use them for measurements. These lasers will be used for more precise measurements which will benefit them in the competition because they will get exact measurements instead of an estimation.

Faith Whitt measuring the distance of the lasers from the ROV
to make sure they are aligned.

Becca Ensign and Jamie Cool drilling a hole
for the wiring

Becca Ensign and Maddy Armstrong attaching
the GoPro to our camera system

Many of our followers may have heard that our 5 Palau girls are engineering camera systems to monitor the movement of Manta Rays in Palau. They plan on placing these cameras at the Manta Cleaning Stations to shoot time lapse photos for 5 days at a time. As of now they have come up with a basic prototype but still have to program a timer, find the correct batteries and water proof the entire system.

The girls with the finished prototype

The team presenting.

Last night, October 13, 2014 the Palau Team and Open ROV Team presented at the School Board Meeting. Th Palau team explained the fundraising and updated ROV systems while the Open ROV Team presented their ROV.