-- What does it do? TruRow uses sensors to measure a rower’s power output in a boat. It takes potentiometer measurements and calculates the angle the oar makes over one stroke and also calculates the force applied to the oarlock itself by the oar. The oar acts as a lever arm, and pushes against the oarlock during a stroke.

I chose to use the waterjet to make my part (was going to use the EDM but there were some technical difficulties) I plan to make an oarlock for my rowing system. It will be made of aluminum and it’ll hold and oar made of steel pipe. I made it fairly thick on the edges so it could withstand a lot of applied force. The waterjet was super cool to watch- really big machine:

I used pyqt to create a simple GUI to interface with my OLED screen. The user can type in values to a text box and click a button that sends these values to an OLED screen. I had to import QtWidgets like this and then write QtWidgets.QApplication..etc from PyQt5 import QtWidgets instead of like this because of an error I was getting with the way I installed pyqt on my linux machine (it was something to do with pylint not pyqt itself (pylint is a code cleaning tool))