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** Decided positions of the sensors
 
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** prototyped sorting mechanism
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== Day 9, Jan 14 ==
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** Gyroscope is working!
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** Prototorotypes of the sorting mechsnism and collumns
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** Proportional control for speed written, tested and discarded
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** infinity bugs everywhere fixed
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** Cleaned up the code for image processing!
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** Exited the lab at 1:45

Revision as of 08:56, 15 January 2015

Contents

Day 0, Jan 5

    • Successfully located the third floor of the IDC building and created this wiki page.
    • Set up our Edison board and created a playing field in Solidworks.
    • Github repo created.

Day 1, Jan 6

    • Members received shop training.
    • Basic prototypes of ball collection mechanisms.
    • Work with OpenCV

Day 2, Jan 7

    • Everything is broken
    • Board is broken
    • Power Supply is broken
    • Multimeter to test power supply is broken
    •  :(

Day 3, Jan 8

    • Everything is still broken
    • Test some sensors with an arduino.
    • Create a makefile that can compile all code together
    • Play with opencv
    • Cads cads and prototype

Day 4, Jan 9

    • Board is still broken
    • Ultrasensor,motorcontroller, short IR, ultra short IR tested!
    • All the wires are a mess. Lets try to standardize them. Red power, *black* ground, *Blue*/purple signal (Sensor ->Board) in, *white*/gray signal out (BOARD -> sensor)

Day 5, Jan 10

    • Board is still broken
    • Saturday!! We had pizza at the lab
    • We discuss the organization for the code.
    • Motor encoders tested and functional!
    • Wires are kinda organized

Day 6, Jan 11

    • Sunday. No Lab today. People coding alone.
    • Skeleton code!

Day 7, Jan 12

    • WE GOT THE EDISON BOARD
    • Strategy meeting with the staff!
    • Code architecture meeting with the staff!
    • New ideas about how to lift the blocks: Use only one movement! No need to lift and then spin
    • First prototype of the top sorting mechanism!
    • Code for the ultrasonic sensor and IR sensors pretty much finished.
    • Most of the electronics have very neat wiring now.
    • Multithread seems to be a real possibility now!
    • We can calculate our distance to a wall using the camera!


Goals for the next couple of days:

    • More prototypes
    • Finish PID control, and sensors, and change code from arduino to C++
    • Bring in cookies sometime

Day 8, Jan 13

    • GOT THINGS DONE!

CODE:

    • All sensors code written (except color sensor, because we don't have it yet
    • A sensor module thread written!
    • Simple PID written!
    • PwmUtils written!
    • Simple motor class and actuator written

Mechanical:

    • Worked on a 4 bar linkage system for the robot arm
    • Decided positions of the sensors
    • prototyped sorting mechanism

Day 9, Jan 14

    • Gyroscope is working!
    • Prototorotypes of the sorting mechsnism and collumns
    • Proportional control for speed written, tested and discarded
    • infinity bugs everywhere fixed
    • Cleaned up the code for image processing!
    • Exited the lab at 1:45
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