TechHive Studio

A design studio and makerspace located at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science

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Stay tuned for information on our Winter project: the Tiny Autonomous Parade

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Final day for prototypes

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The bots are coming together

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On Halloween, Tech Hive visited Ghost Golf, where we were able to learn about animatronics from an experienced professional in the field.

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We are very excited to welcome our Fall 2015 Tech Hive Interns! It was a blast meeting you all on Saturday. Stay tuned for more updates on our animatronic adventures.

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We will miss you victoria!

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project

Today I worked on my individual project, and the horse race. 

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Wilson and I worked on the operation board today, we built another prototype based on robot, luckily it worked after 4 hrs of work; the con about this prototype is we need to replace the parts of the robot's "organ" (because they are conductive).

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I worked on operation board today, I decided to use a robot as our "patient", I worked on it approximately for 5 hrs. At the end, the robot operation board did operate properly, but I definitely need to find some way to improve it. I am looking forward to build another one next week. :D  

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Today I, Sam, worked on my individual project, the collapsible clothes hanger. Pictured are prototypes 1 and 2. The first was flimsy and prone to folding, so version 2 was made with stiffer cardboard and a more compact structure. While the rubbers bands are strong enough to hold clothes and stretchy enough to give when the arms are pulled, it is not so easy to reinsert the hanger into a shirt. I'm hoping to incorporate magnets and a simple pulley system later to make hanging clothes easier.

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Today I worked on helping come up with the background for the Bug Race that will be included for the member games.

Afterwards, I joined the group in BEAM and I learned about how circuits work and the different vocabulary used. (voltage, resistance, current, and electricity). (and to not put the wires of the battery pack wires into the battery pack because it will burn) Then, Ethan and I adopted Arman's maglev train and modified it a little. We then used the aluminum railings to light up an LED light as the wires touched the railing. 

Finally, I helped Alex with recording the script on Camptasia for a beginning tutorial on our chapter about building a basketball. In the techtorial, we showed how to build a variable and a little but of how they are used. 

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Today in TechHive, I created multiple backdrops and a few sprites for the Member Game: "Bug Race." A couple of the shots are shown here, but there were multiple backdrops to show a gradual turn left, right, and then straight. I edited the flower and the bug to be used and uploaded it to the Google Drive folder. They can be found at the link below:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/18017778/ 

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#Leslie #Victoria Guided blindfold

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Made a drawing for my coat hanger. I couldn't draw a circle well, so I used Autodesk

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Decided to make a collapsible coat hanger for my individual project. It will fold when pulling a shirt off of it, and snap back to its original shape.