Caroline Graham: Aerospace Engineering Week 6
The final week of my internship went by so fast that it hardly felt like a week at all. I finally got the motor correctly adjusted to run the hang test and had all the software up and running, so I ran the tests this week. After the gyroscope had been tested, I imported the […]
Caroline Graham: Aerospace Engineering Week Five
This week was a little less eventful than usual, but Clara and I are slowly wrapping up our projects. One of the gyroscopes that I wanted to test was a shuttle board instead of a breakout board like the others and I had to modify the code to run that board, which took almost two […]
Caroline Graham: Aerospace Engineering Week Four
Week four was a very productive week. The MAXWELL gyroscopes were ordered and I wrote up an experiment similar to the test done on gyroscopes for the QB50 satellite in the past. The hang test will allow the accuracy of several triple axis gyroscopes to be analyzed. To do this, a camera and software will be […]
Caroline Graham: Aerospace Engineering Week Three
Hi everybody! Week three has been great, our mentor, Andrew, is back and I’ve started working on testing the gyroscopes with the Arduino. I also learned how to solder when I soldered the pins onto the Adafruit breakout board. We took a tour of Bio-Serve, which is a nonprofit, research organization on the third floor […]
Caroline Graham: Week Two Aerospace Engineering
This week Clara and I worked on our projects more, and learned the specifics of what we are going to be working on for the next four weeks. Because our mentor Andrew is currently in Guatemala, we’ve been watching tutorials and doing exercises specific to our projects on the Arduino and Solidworks software. Last […]
Caroline Graham: Week One Aerospace Engineering
Hi Everybody! I’m Caroline Graham and am interning at Colorado University Boulder’s Aerospace Engineering program through the Pinhead Institute. The first week has been pretty awesome. Clara and I met our host family, Jean Coulter and Eben Clark, along with their two kids Shea and Quinn, last Sunday. They have been so helpful and welcoming […]