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Week of 5/18 - 5/22
this week I was only here for two days, so I didn't get a ton done, but I did start wrapping things up with the hexapod project since I won't be able to completely finish it with the days that we have left in shop. I firstly took all the code from the project and put it on my GitHub account since I hadn't done that before. So now I have all the mostly important files in there that someone would need if they were to try to finish my project in the future. I also made sure all


Week of 5/11 - 5/15
This week, I started out by installing the rest of the standoffs that I hadn't put on yet. There were only six that I needed to attach, but they helped because three of the legs were wobbling a bit. With these attached, all the motors were secure, and now the legs don't move when I don't want them to. After that was done, I then started to get to work on making it so the walking gait would move straight instead of sideways a little bit. I mapped out all the points that a leg


Week of 4/27 - 5/1
I started off this week by making half of the foot and cap molds, and they came out really well, actually. I had extra silicone when I poured them into the molds. So I decided to try to put the molds themselves into the silicone so that they would always have an excess of silicone and could remove air bubbles from it. And this seemed to work because there are no noticeable air bubbles besides very small ones, but I don't think those will matter in the grand scheme of things.
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