Learning how to break cell phones

First, I removed the battery. Next, I took out all the screws from the Nokia Phone and took off the casing, thus revealing the circuit boards. I then used the screwdriver to remove components that were nailed down. Next, I carefully extracted  the boards...

Squiggle Bot

Yesterday, me, Yusuf, Ashwin, and Rahul built a robot out of a plastic LED fan. The legs were markers and the fan had three out of its seven blades cut off, which created a vibrating motion, allowing the robot to move, and powered it with a nine-volt bat...

The Hacking of the Printer

Yesterday, the squiggle bot teams got to hack into pieces of eletronics. Me, Ashwin, Yusuf, and Rahul hacked into a large printer formerly in Ashwin’s possession. We spent a long time figuring out how to remove the main outer casing, and when finall...

The Junkbot

Today, we broke open a printer and removed select parts. The parts we removed were all mainly motors and gears to use in our junkbot. The junkbot was supposed to roll around on a wheeled chassis. However, we were not able to finish the bot despite our bes...

The Robot by Rahul/Austin/Ashwin/Y

Today we built a rolling robot. It was made of peanut butter jar ends and CD-ROM casings, rubber bands, tape, LOTS OF TAPE, wires, and etc. It took about seven hours to make. Rahul was the Project Head, and mechanic. Ashwin as the Co-Head and Logistics ...