Tim's blog

Hello dear readers!

I thought I'll have to tell between what I'm doing by all. I mean between the weekends and evenings from natural .

When I went looking for an internship, I simply googled all universities in New Zealand. As you click through to the engineering department and mail you the top three persons on the staff list. In other words, I got spammed with 25 people whether they had an internship for me.

Prof. Chen Xiaoqi had an assignment for me called "Design and control of a Biologically Inspired Robot". Now I'm training as a control engineer and I was looking for a job with what design aspects in it, so this job description sounded like music to the ears.
I am currently working on a wall-climbing robot:

This robot climbs a wall by blowing against it. (We know exactly why he himself did not stick instead of that he blows himself from the wall).

This robot uses 240 liters per minute with a pressure of 5 bar. To do this, a hose to the robot. This is a problem because the snake is too heavy if the robot at 7 meters against a wall climb. My mission is to get rid of the snake and preferably also of the power cord.

For the record: the robot uses more than likely your home compressor can deliver. A simple calculation shows that about a 1 kw engine I need to pump to drive. (Ever seen a drill? Das January 1 kw motor onopgevoerde and a moped is 0.5 kw). Well you can just imagine how heavy a compressor would be. Unfortunately, the robot only 500 grams luggage. So let's say it is a challenge ...

I am currently busy with two things. Firstly, I am actually a pump design that (in theory) provides the required pressure and flow. The principle is based on a roots supercharger. But I fear that this will be around 800 grams incl motor roads. So still too heavy for the robot.
That's why I'm doing the pads of the robot to improve. The pads are the round things that the robot against the wall. I do this with a German. I designed and built an experimental setup in which we accurately the pressure profile under the pads can view. With this we hope to figure out how the pads actually work. Also we have three different versions of the pads, and these are designed at the moment produced in the workshop. Hopefully they work more efficiently or do we learn about the influence of the dimensions on the performance.

And here I am so about 40 hours per week doing . For you it will undoubtedly happen here just like I'm doing fun things, but 40 hours per week are certainly made. Generally I make slightly more than 8 hours per day to the lazy days and free to compensate for day trips .

Well it will happen as the number of robot blabla blabla chinese blabla blablabla pump. So here as a short-you-knew that you:

did you know that:

• I still have no shelter
• I therefore illegal sleeping on the couch in the kitchen
• Since I already was working illegally, I just stay dine here
• Since I'm here quite a few pistachio nuts have on
• Ryan, Carsten and I have been away last weekend
• We have set themselves a walk
• We therefore uniquely places have been
• Evening was a beautiful sunset
• We hike the next day being
• It was pretty foggy
• Internet here 2 cents per mb cost
• That represents 10 per gb!
• I've made no mistake
• My assignment two weeks lain quietly
• I for non-technical but still some pictures of the weekend post
• You here a nice video of the fog can download
• Ryan and his camera vest on the car had left
• The camera was still there afterwards
• Patent so because I have no pictures of the pads can post

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