15.8.15

Thesis

I have now finished my results chapter and I am writing the introduction to my discussion chapter. I am finding this chapter the most difficult to write as I want to be really precise in what I am trying to get across to the reader as its sort of the last thing they will read and I want it to really encapsulate the whole story as it where. 

Model

I ordered a motor cross torso body shield from ebay, it was pretty cheap and had lots of cracks and scrapes on it..which is great because it makes it look like the robot as been through the wars. I had to strip out all of the padding with a knife and the turn of the bolts to face the other way as they all had logo written on them and I didnt really want that on the robot.

Feelings: I am stressing out a little over my results chapter at the moment, I think this is normal though. I have been reading a few text books on 'structuring your thesis' and that has helped but I still need to get it to flow right. 

Evaluation: The robot does look a lot better with a body, I think the scale of the thing when it is complete is going to be pretty massive. I may need to buy a bigger dining room table to display it all on. I need to start working on putting together the internal parts of the body. For this I am going to use standard aluminium robot brackets and find a place to fit the kinect sensor. I am currently thinking it would look best sat in front on the neck rotational bracket but will have to see if space permits for this as I go along. 

Analysis: The current position of the project makes sense to me, I really think things are starting to move on a lot faster now and its sort of about time this happened as it has been pretty frustrating sitting around waiting to get paid or waiting for parts when all I want to do is work on the robot. 

Conclusion: In conlcusion this has been a both fun and stressful sort of session, ripping the body armour to bits gave me some much needed stress relief and on the other hand I really need to nail my discussion chapter and get it flowing really well. 

Action Plan: Keep working.