seaperch

Coming up on Monday April 19, 2010

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:47:21 +0100

On Monday Sara and Alesha will be soldering for the first time! YAY! And with the supervision of Coleson and Caitlyn we know this will definately turn out a success.

Also Caitlyn and Coleson will start building the control box/panel as well.

And Mrs.P has just rescently informed us that the under water camera has arrived in the mail! YAY! So that is what our next project will be.

We will keep updating our blog and let you know what is going on.

No meeting on Wed.(April 14, 2010)

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:21:16 +0100

Sorry. There was no science club on Wednesday. =(

We all were super busy and weren't able to go. But we apologize to Dr.Dee for not being able to make it, because she will not be able to join us next week to help us solder. =(

So we are very sorry, but luckily Mrs.P knows what to do and is going to help us solder.

AHA!

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:17:50 +0100

We have found out what was wrong with the thruster!

With our finest disecters Mickey and Janell they have found out what was wrong with the thruster. And it was the faulty wiring. But we have learned from this expierience and now know when we build our second seaperch we will double check the wiring.

And now while they disected the thruster Sara, Alesha, Coleson, and Ms.Riddle worked on building the new thruster. And so next week Sara and Alesha will work on that while Caitlyn and Coleson supervise and work on the control box/panel. So we are all looking forward to that.

TEST OUT THE MOTORS!

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:02:43 +0100

We tested the three motors after pouring the wax into the film canister, and letting it cool in the freezer. As we tested the first wire which was the orange and white. It didnt work. So we thought there might be a connection probalem or a malfunction. So we moved onto the next wires and tried those out. And SUCCESS! They worked! So we tried the orange and white wires, but still no progress. It didnt work. It could be a ton of reasons, it could be that wax was exposed to the wiring of some sort, or maybe it could be something else.

So now, next week on Monday April 12, 2010 Janell and Mickey are going to disect and troubleshoot the third motor and figure out why it didn't work or what went wrong. Sara and Alesha will work on building a new motor in place of the one that malfunctioned. While Caitlyn and Coleson show Alesha and Sara how to build a motor (Because Alesha and Sara don't know how to) they will also be working on the next steps of seaperch.

So as you can see there were problems which will occur during expieraments, but we shall learn from them and better our next seaperch. =)

MELTING WAX!!!

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:23:50 +0100

Janell and Sara melted toilet bowl wax by using a single portable stove top burner, 3 glass cups, water, a pot, and water.
First we put an inch of water into the pot and set the pot onto the burner. Then cut little pieces of the wax and put it into the glass cups. And place the cups in the pot of hot water. And put some water in the other two jars to push up against the jar with wax, just to weigh it down.

To make the proscess more efficient we took an extra glass and put a couple extra pieces of wax into it and when the other glass of wax was ready we swiched them. To keep the proscess going. So we just kept swiching them out.

SCIENCE CLUB TODAY! April 7, 2010

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:28:38 +0100

We have science club this afternoon and we are planning to melt the toilet bowl ring wax onto seaperch and we have old visitors! My good friend Alesha is coming to science club today along with my old peers Persuasion and Jamielynn. They have done previous science projects with us and so they are coming today to see what we are up too. So we are really excited.

PROGRESS!

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:06:39 +0100

April 5, 2010

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:39:56 +0100

Okay on Monaday we didn't work on seaperch. In fact we did 3 science experiments. On turbitity, temperature, and Ph sampling. It is practice for when we go to Waihee beach in May to test out seaperch. But there is still a long way to go with seaperch and we will be melting wax onto seaperch tomorrow at our next meeting. Until then ta ta for now.

Done soldering! For now

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:16:13 +0100

YAY! We have succesfully finished soldering and as you can see in the picture below, is the final creation of the wiring done by our smart technology engineers Coleson and Caitlyn.

Now the next meeting we have on Monday April 5, 2010 is when we consoladate all of the parts onto seaperch. And hopefully during that time Sara, Mickey, and Janell can blog about what's going on. But until then...Happy Easter!

Coleson's Blistered Thumb...OUCH!

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:08:18 +0100