Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) 
• : “I, NOAH NAKIELSKI, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
• Well for the robotics in FTC, our leader was Joey Uken, a Student at Cal Poly Pomona, he came to ipoly in hope to find a team or start one for that matter.
  (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
• done
• (d) Explanation of what you completed.    
• Ok to start off, From doing this robotics tournament/collaboration project I've gotten a glimpse as to what it is like working in these fields within a team. Its stressful and time consuming, but when you first start off you fail alot and you just keep doing it. The goal from square one was to create a robot. This robot is intended to carry out many functions such as putting blocks into a basket, to the robot being able to self sustain itself when hanging on a bar. In the end my team and I created a robot to do these functions, although it wasn't the best robot it still preformed extraordinarily well for a rookie team. From this experience I learned more about the potential uses of robots not only in the military but also within civilian use based on the functions that these machines can do, like for this instance lifting things, is truly fascinating and I'm glad I was part of this amazing team.
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

 So in this picture is out Cat bot, we call it cat bot cause we put a beware of dog sign, its ironic in a way.

                                                                  Welcome to the team

                                        Carlos showing me the code for the robot motors (tuning)

                                            My nervous face but happy to be participating 

                                           Cat bot with its first run in the second tournament 

                                         Our second axle design that carlos thought of but never used

                                                      Cat bot in action as it scoops up blocks in the corner of the field.

EEMAIL ME FOR THE LINK TO THE WHOLE ALBUM blogger wont let me it says it maxes out space

Link forget the email.

https://app.box.com/7528-Publicity-Files

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

This helped me out alot, not only with the uses of these remarkable machines, but also making me develop a better understanding how they work and how much time is truly needed to get the right product out there. Carlos was also a big help in this, he talked me into taking java and so far that is helping with the programming.The robot itself is a fun experience that opens up many other doors to new things such as programming, power delivery, designs etc. (i explained some stuff to answer this question within the last bullet point in the literal section)

Grading Criteria 

• Log on a digital spreadsheet 
• Evidence of 30 hours of work 
• LIA submitted to blog

January blog post

Not much has changed due to my dad having knee surgery. But this month was very special, I got to finally go to a Northrop Grumman executive conference and they are happy to see that I'm the first high school student to do this project! Ill post more info, my next meeting is on febuary 17th.

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

Content:

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I finally was able to talk about what mentor ship consists of, I didn't get the chance to do that in the first presentation and I'm really happy I got to do that.
2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I feel I did my best to do my presentation, I admit I had too much info to present on and it went on for too long, I honestly don't try to do that but this is my passion and I love what I'm doing, in fact I even piss of my girlfriend cause I talk about this topic too much. I also didn't do well on my activity but i will have to improve it when it comes time for the Final Presentation.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
Everything worked for me up to the time, I rambled on too much and I feel I need to stop doing that, let alone keep the answer more to the point.
4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
The Activity I really didn't have alot of time to explain it and I wish I got to explain it a bit more as it would have helped alot more if I did that
5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 
I haven't really thought of it but I am thinking one of the possible 2
1 being uses of robots 
2 being algorithms etc. 

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. EQ: How can an electrical engineer best improve the use of robots?

2. What opportunities do you see arising in this field?( or whats out there I guess)

3. As robots become more Autonomous, is it possible to assign a robot responsibility for its self?

4. When it comes to coding, whats the best language to use such as C++ or C sharp etc.?

5. How are Robots being used in our everyday lives?

6.  Whats the hardest part about working with robots or machines?

7. Is it possible to change a huge line of code and simplify it down to a smaller code but performs just as well as the original code, if so how, if not well then why not? ( IF statements LOL) http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/If
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8. What are the most pressing problems in addressing Electrical Engineers Within robotics?

9. How can these problems be over come?

10. What are some the big corporations that would consider electrical engineers or that feild in particular?

blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours

1.   Where are you doing your mentor ship?

I'm doing my  mentor ship at Cal Poly Pomona, I'm on a team of Engineering grad students working alongside Northrop Grumman. This project is a collaboration project that serves as an outreach program for job applications and experience.

2.   Who is your contact?


Ajay Bettadapura Aero Space , Ian Mcllraith Hardwear. etc (providing buisness card)

3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentor ship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?

49 Hours and 50 min listed, but 52 hours and 50 min total.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

I've completed 10 hours this week so I am writing on that in particular, so this week my mentor introduced me to programing! On Monday I was ready to start working on the FPGA ( ), but Ian convinced Ajay that the FPGA would have to come later because of the difficulty of the programming. So with that being said I've spent my 10 hours working on this arduino board figuring out what to make it do and how to program it. My mentor wants me to be independent and find solutions on my own so he told me to figure this step of the process on my own.

5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it.

Blog 10: Senior Project: The Holiday

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you over the break with your senior project?

- Over break my mentor went on vacation but before he left he told me to look into arduino . Arduino is a program that is to help you learn the basics of programming a control board of a uav or ugv. But all im working with so far are servos and cameras.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

-How to program, EE's require a lot of knowledge about programming and having to integrate all the things I've learned from Arduino.cc . This site has so much information about the types of inputs and outputs for programming. 

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

- Im not sure if we can do this but Id like to ask a variety of people at my mentor ship due to the mass amounts of knowledge on these subjects. Ill be providing a business card for the teachers  with the names of the leaders that I am going to ask.

Decmber Blog post

Gnvjn Being that this is my last post of this year, I work like to say HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE/ New Year's Day!. I've enjoyed this school year very much and it's an honor to work beside great students and amazing teachers! 

Enough said, for this month in my mentorship, my mentor and the engineering team were focusing a lot of time on their finals and I understood the stress that they were undergoing so I didn't try asking to much of their help. I still was able to attend many events but my favorite event that I got to attend was the Robo Olympics. The robo Olympics was a 404 class project with one of the guys on my team, Ian , and his team was to work on a smaller robot to compete in a series of challenges such as tug of war, seek and destroy, uphill climb, and the first impressions. His team scored 2nd in the first impressions challenge and this was the robot:

The shell was the part I didn't like cause the powder that it was giving off due to the sanding was seriously irritating my nose: 

I literally have to move far away cause I couldn't stop sneezing !

When it came to the event, I was only able to tape the first event due to my phone dying but here's the links to the tug of war event.;

Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUyYdwIP2A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ATJ0uKuxZ4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

In the end Still better than SLO ( our robot ) got 3rd place because it lost all the events except two. 

When it comes to the upcoming winter quarter, I will be working on the FPGA so that should be fun!