This is the picture I started, originally of a firehydrant. Here’s how it looked before: And now after Vikram and Kacie and I edited it:

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I’ve found this to be a difficult essay to write reflections on; his progression is such that paragraphs seem to evaporate in my mind immediately after I finish reading them. Despite my ability to follow the logic within a cluster of sentences (though this is still not an especially easy read), the thoughts seem to [...]

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The second week I was running a little late. I made it to the gym (this is the same room which I called the “lab” in my last post; gym is however a better term, and the term they use at the hospital) a little out of breath. Pinky let me breathe for a moment, [...]

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Initial: Soldering iron off, plugged in. User standing. Board, wire, connector on table. Wire strippers, rosin, water bottle, solder scattered about table. T+0: Sits. Leans forward. Turns iron on. Leans back. T+4s: Turns to left. looks around to right. pauses. Looks back to left. T+ 17s: Leans forward, slouching. Picks up board, moves it squarely [...]

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This week we were asked to build a luv-o-meter (or any other device that uses analog input). This is what I came up with. This design is based around the AD595 Thermocouple Amplifier. It takes a voltage reading from a thermocouple (in this case a length of K thermocouple wire with the ends twisted together), [...]

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