Day 12 started out again with us finishing up the first revision of the laboratories. Fjodor and I finally put them into a form that makes sense to us, and all we need to do now is edit them as we are completing the labs as a student would. This took until lunch time, but it’s nice to know that we figured out many of the logistical necessities before trying to complete the labs.
We had a meeting after lunch with the Balloon Launch team. We’re getting close to our August 1st launch date, so we’re working on what logistics need to be solved. We are still waiting on some supplies to arrive, and working out the purchase of local supplies. We also need to solder some of the parts that came disassembled, which will take most of our Monday afternoon, working with Jean to also complete our protoprototype of the cutoff mechanism for environmental testing.
We spent the rest of the afternoon in the lab, working on completing Lab #1- Introduction to Electronics, as we had written it. We ran into a few problems, but were able to get the laboratory working and completed. It’s nice to have one completely finished laboratory- We’re not even halfway done yet!
Here is a picture of our first lab introductory activity supplies and our first setup!
Lab #1 Required Materials
Lab #1 LED Setup