Brandon has been playing around with Think Crate projects. He's built a piano (pictured above). 0:00/1× And he has also built a Planetarium project. Here's his code for the Piano project: bool activateSecondCode = false; bool button11Pressed = false; bool button12Pressed = false; // Add a variable to track button 12 state

The servo motor is not powerful enough to push down the hand sanitiser pump. So we are figuring out from scratch how to make a gearbox to increase the force to push down on the pump.

Brendan continues working on his soap dispenser. He is figuring out how to mount a rack-and-pinion mechanism that will push down on the dispenser bottle. He also experimented with adding guide rails to prevent the pressing lid from moving around too much. You can see it in the photo below

Brendan is working on a new project, a soap dispenser. We sketched out the idea on the whiteboard, and he did a rough prototype using cardboard, before transferring his design to Inkscape, and laser cutting the design on acrylic. He's still figuring out how the electronics will be incorporated into

In the first iteration of the design, Brandon glued the servo motor directly to the base plate. He improved the design to remove that requirement, by fabricating a part that will trap the servo motor firmly in place without glue, although glue is still used to attach the fabricated part

Brendan is designing an RC car, and is starting with a design from scratch of his platform/housing. He is studying how to design a secure mount for the servo motors. At the moment, the servo mount requires a fair amount of hot glue to hold together, but it holds