Blog Post - Longmont Innovation Center Robotics Team Visits SparkFun
Hey Guys, I put together this rough outline for the blog post. Please check it out and feel free to change as you wish. Cheers! -Pete
As a reference, here is the team canary’s blog post about their visit:
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Intro
What is the IC, the team, the project? What stage are you at and describe the connection to SparkFun?
Tell the story about the visit
Highlights from the visit with or without pics. Stenciling. Populating parts in classroom. Time crunch of getting the parts on and boards in the oven before the paste dries too much!! The most careful walking ever from upstairs classroom down to the production oven :) Watching the boards pop out of the oven!
Conclusion
Lessons learned? What is the funnest part of building electronics? What was the hardest part? Is there anything change in the design if you were to build them again? Supply chain challenges buying parts? What’s next for the team? Can we follow a link to see more updates?
Rough Draft: The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools seeks to transcend the traditional classroom and provides experiential opportunities that are developing today’s students into tomorrow’s leaders, innovators, and changemakers. As a part of these efforts, the Innovation Center hosts dozens of “project teams” across several focus areas that seek to complete real projects for real people alongside industry partners who provide incredible mentorship opportunities for students.
SparkFun Electronics has been a long-standing partner with The Innovation Center. Industry experts from SparkFun have generously provided their time, energy, and expertise to students, largely in the form of mentorship. This mentorship has been key in seeing several projects get off the ground and the afternoon of May 13th proved to be no exception.
The Innovation center’s Electrical team was tasked with applying the surface mounts to three recently acquired PCBs. The PCB is designed to operate an underwater remotely operated vehicle, called Poseidon. The Electrical team consists of Alex, Ian, Ben H., Ben G., and Pete. Alex, Pete and Ian were the original designers of the board, with both Bens joining at a later time.
Sparkfun was crucial in the completion of the board. The need for Sparkfun came when we required superior equipment to what the Innovation Center had available. Sparkfun had an oven perfectly suited for solder paste. In addition, they had the right materials to apply solder paste, and coupled with the experience of the staff, the job became much easier. Thus, Sparkfun was critical to the process.
Engineer, Pete Lewis,
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