Final week of the internship! This week at the lab, we did a lot of prototyping. We continued to work on the bucket drum, but also got to start on the main subsystem I had been working on, which was the wheels. We finalized the design...
This week had a lot more hands on work on the rover [caption id="attachment_35168" align="alignnone" width="225"] Pretty cool clouds[/caption] At work, we spent a lot of time assembling and testing prototypes for the bucket drum of the rover. We observed how the regolith moved inside and made...
This week was a little slower, but still very fun Lab work slowed down for this week. We were mostly in a good place for the systems I am working on, so it mostly consisted of buying parts to build a prototype for them. We also...
This week was very eventful! For the internship, we had our PDR (Preliminary Design Review), for the rover. We presented our work to the lab lead, Dr Frankie Zhu, and other professors and people who joined. It was nerve wracking but very good experience. It went...
There goes week 2! Lab work picked up this week at the RoSE Lab as we are prepping for the PDR this upcoming Monday (June 22). PDR stands for Preliminary Design Review and it is basically where the IPEx Rover team presents our work to the...
Week 1 of the internship is already over! It felt so fast but it was very fun and interesting! I am working at the RoSE Lab at the Colorado School of Mines for this summer. RoSE stands for Robotics Space Exploration Lab, and it specializes in...
Hello, my name is Luke Fritsche. I am a junior at Telluride High School, and I have the great privilege of going on a pinternship this summer. I come from Dallas Texas and have lived in Telluride for about 2 and a half years now,...