Week+of+1-21-2012

1-21-2012 I came into the lab and eased into the new semester and the return from break by connecting the power supply to the Arduino motor controller inside the system that will control the scope that Alex asked Matt and I to rebuilding before break. It is not the scope I will be using but nevertheless it needed to be done. I then used the Dremel tool to cut a square out of the copper piece pictured below. The small square will be placed in the control system and I will be doing more complex wiring and soldering with it on Thursday. I observed as Matt reverse-engineered the schematics for part of the control system using the source code he had written for the original scope. I was then going to solder those parts but it was already past five o'clock and we needed thin wire that was available in the physics stockroom but it was after five o'clock so we could not move any more forward today. I ended up leaving around 5:40 pm.