As apart of the final month I have been working on the group tech project. My main role throughout this project was to code the braccio arm. The library for the braccio arm only included 1 function that made the arm move to where the motors degrees were set to so any movement code had to be done manually.
As a team we came to the conclusion to use 2 joysticks to make the arm move since we only had 5 servos (we used to have 6 but we removed 1) so with 2 joysticks we can move each individual part and use the z axis for both sticks to open and close the gripper.
The hardest part of this project for me was working with the quirks of c++ and arduino because while they are similar enough to python it has some things that it doesn’t allow due to being a lower level language. In the end we were able to get the arm fully moving and functioning
In this time I also worked on my essay about toxic online cultures. I wanted to explore some toxic online cultures and discuss why they are toxic. I explored parasocial relationships, family vlogging, online gambling in games and Roblox. I choose these 4 areas because they are a wide range of different communities that also link together nicely in how they are toxic.
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