Devlog 2 - Section 1A

I finished Section 1A, where I completed the Plates and Assemblies subsections!

This past week, I learned about how I could create sketches and use a variety of features to make my work easier, such as centre point arc, mirror, use/project, tangent, coincident, etc. I used some of them (like the use/project or centre point arc to create gussets). I also learned about how to create assemblies, add elements to them (either through Insert or through the FRCDesign Inserter), and assemble everything (replicate, fastened mate, etc.)

On to Section 1B!

Devlog 1 - Section 1A

This past week, I focused on CADing for the FIRST Robotics Competition, using Onshape! My team, Arctos 6135, is apparently shifting to Onshape, so this is a good opportunity for me to learn the concepts while everyone is transitioning to this new platform. I started using FRCDesign.org to teach me the various design concepts, and I am proud to say that I have finished 1A!

In Section 1A, I learned about various box tubes (1x1, 1x2), how to CAD them in Onshape, and started learning basic sketching (such as using features like the various rectangles, coincident/tangent, dimension, projection, etc.). I also learned how to create a drivetrain frame and add either boxes (1.5) or triangles (1.6) on the frame.

The attached image shows my drivetrain frame with a triangle, to complete Exercise 6 in 1A:

Devlog 2

Some updates from yesterday:

• README.md has been finalized
• Errors have been checked
• I capitalized the title at the top in the tabs to be Andromedaaa

We are ready to ship!

Devlog 1

Over the past three days, I started, tested, and finalized this project. Here are some of the things that I am currently working toward in the submission requirements:

1. ✅It currently has HTML, CSS, and JS (with CSS and JS located in the src folder).

2. ⏰Currently working on a README, but I do have a lot of frequent commits (13 total).

3. ✅Here is the current devlog where I will be describing what I have been built (and any additional features that I have added).

4. ✅No AI usage at all in this project!

5. ✅Fully deployed website (not just a localhost)

6. ✅Custom UI/CSS instead of plain templates (I added an image of the James Webb Telescope in the background through the CSS property of background-image.

7. ✅This website uses a real feature (where we retrieve data from the NASA API).

What My Website Currently Has:

• Title, which is centred and retrieved from the API
• Explanation of what is happening (left-justified, with a relatively small margin to the left and right)
• Image/Video/YouTube video, that is currently managed by main.js depending on the type of media it is, which is located below the Title and Explanation
• Copyright Credits, located at the bottom and is aligned to the centre horizontally. This is used to credit the creators and contributors (NEW to just my website)
• Date changer, allowing the user to change the date and read up on previous topics in the past (I do this by adding the date to the fetch command in main.js). This is also NEW to just my website; however, the creator of the APOD project did suggest something relating to the date in the introduction.

Next Steps:

• Write a README for the project
• Attempt to find more errors
• Ship! (After that maybe, I might go back and add another few features!)

Devlog 3 for ArctosOS

Part 3 has been completed! Over the past few days, I encountered a problem where if I dragged the window to the right, the width of the window would decrease; if I dragged the window to the left, the width of the window would increase – despite the window not being near the periphery of the OS screen. After quite a long time of troubleshooting, I realized that I needed to set a fixed width, or the code would automatically resize the width depending on position.

Part 3 had a variety of tasks to manipulate the welcome window, including dragging, closing (in other words, setting display to “none”) and opening.

Over the next few days, I will learn how to create apps on my new OS!

Devlog 2

I recently spent time finishing the 1st and 2nd parts of the PersonalOS, where I created a welcome screen with an image background relating to me, and added the time (where it would update every second).

Part 3 next!!

Some changes from the original guide:

• I moved the “Top Bar” in Part 2 to the bottom by setting bottom: 0; in the div style that contains the bar.
• I added the site’s favicon and altered the name of the site by changing it in <head>.
• I used multiple different divs to centre various elements on the site.

Over the past few days, I have been working toward creating the welcome screen for my OS! I decided since FRC (the FIRST Robotics Competition) is such an integral part of who I am, to focus on communicating my team and what we do yet again. In my OS so far, I have some images and links attached, and soon, I will be able to style these to make them appear better on my OS.

Over the past day, I started the Slack bot mission and made a bot (ArctosBOT) with basic commands (such as ping, help, catfacts, and facts). I will introduce more and more commands as time passes (I have already added a bot introduction command, as well as a diceroll command!).

Even though I haven’t made my bot online 24/7, I will do that soon after enough unique commands have been added!