Today is officially our last post! We will put all of our posts onto this one post to try and replicate a guide or instruction manual. 1. Determine Roles You and your group should determine each...

Today we tested the electric skateboard outside on the basketball court. We realized the motor couldn't handle the weight of a human being on the skateboard. Although, if there is no one on the skateboard,...

Today, we attached the velcro to the skateboard to hold the materials in place. After testing the skateboard, we ran into another problem. We found out that the belt for the motor is too big. To combat...

Today, we are trying to create divots into the motor so that the gear can stay put while the motor is in motion. We used a drill, but that wasn't effective enough so we switched to a dremel. After using...

Today, we worked on putting more spacers on the wheel that will eventually attach to the motor mount. A team member is also programming a box to protect the battery and ESC.  We are also working on attaching...

Today we are drilling the hole in the truck to secure the motor in place. We are also still designing our container to hold all the parts onto the board. We drilled the holes in the truck and have attached...

Today we are reassembling the truck to put back onto the skateboard. We also fixed the issue with the wheel and gear. We are also brainstorming ideas on how we should attach the materials onto the board...

Today we continued to drummel the truck so that the motor mount will fit on. We also worked on removing the inner parts of the wheel so that the gear will fit with the wheel.

Today we put the motor, the ESC, and the battery all together! It worked! We also had to trim parts off the wheel, working further on what we did last post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOk-vAlmHk We...

Today, we cut off some of the inner parts of the wheels. We have to adjust so that our motor mount can be put onto the truck of our skateboard. Before After

Today we received our battery, wheels, and battery adapter. The wheels that we ordered have holes in them, so we can fit the sprocket into the wheels now. We are working on putting the wheels onto the...

Many swimmers face the problem of not being able to track their fitness while underwater. Some companies do make their fitness watches waterproof, but only up to a certain time or distance. The Swimmo...

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When trying to fit the sprocket (the gear like part of the motor mount)into the wheel, we realized that the first hole we made was slightly off center, so we couldn't continue with these wheels. We are...

Today we tried attaching the spoke, that goes with the motor mount, to the wheel. We had some difficulties and we are going to have to order new wheels. We also ordered a battery today. This is what...

Many swimmers use swim caps, especially girls, to keep hair out of their faces. But, did you know that swim caps have more than one purpose? Swim caps are designed to be multi-purpose. They were originally...

Today we spent the class taking turns using the drummel to sand down the truck so that we can attach the motor mount, wheel, and gear later. We had some problems using the drummel, but we have made some...

Today we got the battery and connected it to the ESC. When we pressed the on/off button, it worked! We also worked on figuring out which wire on the motor connects to the other wires on the ESC. We also...

Today we put batteries in the remote, but we had to use the drill press to get to the battery panel. We also tried connecting the remote the ESC and the receiver. Syncing the remote to the ESC and...

Today we laid out the pieces we already had to figure out which ones we would need to buy. We have most of the pieces, but we still have to order a battery, because the one we have doesn't fit with our...

Today cpsmesak brought in our skateboard. We cleaned it off and measured the wheels to make sure our motor mount would fit the wheels. We also worked on our purchase orders and tqsy drew out our plan...

Today we determined roles for each of the members in our group. tqsy is in charge of our purchase orders, cpsmesak is our team leader, and sw1m is in charge of writing the project posts. Today we also...

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