Alex JanisAug 28, 20191 min readWeek 9: Final WeekI began a new project of transferring Dr. Adamczyk's handwritten notes into a completely textual Pressbooks format. The notes contained...
Alex JanisAug 15, 20194 min readWeek 8: A Barrel of GraphsWobbleBot is having a few issues. Firstly, it keeps falling over. I tried to solve this issue by changing the number of washers between...
Alex JanisAug 9, 20193 min readWeek 7: Don't Be Stressed, Stress Test!We made some progress on the robot arm. One of the grad students sat down with me and traced the errors back. After debugging for a...
Alex JanisAug 6, 20192 min readWeek 6: This week, most of the graduate students and Dr. Adamczyk were absent. They attended a conference where they presented their projects to...
Alex JanisJul 30, 20193 min readWeek 5: Spider-Web DesignThis week, the parts for the TorsoBot came in and we reassembled it. We shifted our focus back to the original goal of the project,...
Alex JanisJul 22, 20191 min readPrompt 1: Introduction to the lab, research aims, and peopleThe BADGER Lab at UW Madison is doing some groundbreaking research. For example, they are designing a semi-automated prosthetic foot with...
Alex JanisJul 22, 20193 min readWeek 4: ROS-istance Is FutileThis week, we got a new project: WobbleBot. It looks like a silhouette of a penguin with two nearly horizontal wheels for feet. The...
Alex JanisJul 22, 20193 min readWeek 3: A Wheely Big SetbackWe further troubleshooted our new program for the TorsoBot. Initially, its legs were not moving in the way that we wanted them too....
Alex JanisJul 8, 20193 min readWeek 2: Wheel, Wheel, Wheel... Here We Go Again This week I got the chance to observe and assist in a different project. A test subject came in to test a passive weightlifting ankle...
Alex JanisJul 1, 20193 min readWeek 1: TorsoBotMy first week at my ASR internship went great! So far, I have only met one of the other interns, Robert. Together, we have been working...
Alex JanisJun 1, 20191 min readPrompt: Preliminary BioHello! My name is Alex Janis. I am currently a senior at Madison Country Day High School and I am interning with the Biomechatronics,...