Team 1: jkjk

"To be the very best, that no one ever was"

Team members

01/04/16

We have ideated two broad approaches to handling the cubes and scoring points: poking (removing blocks from existing stacks), and stacking (stacking blocks that are on the ground)
Our goal for week 1 is to:
- Design and prototype three different scoring methods
- Become familiar with the tablet, Teensy, and OpenCV
Fun fact, we're also a Next House IAP cooking group!

01/08/16

MechE
- We are attempting an approach that uses brushes turning opposite directions to suck in, and then move up a ramp, blocks of any color
- After the brushes pull the blocks up a ramp, the blocks will fall done a chute into a hopper, where a color sensor will determine the color
- A flipper arm above the hopper will then push the blocks into the appropriate stack (red or green)
- The stacks should be able to retain about 5 blocks; what to do after the stacks surpass that height is undetermined
EECS
- The kit bot has been assembled (kind of), so that we can start testing out different path-finding algorithmsm and wall detection and whatnot
- We have worked with the webcam and openCV to be able to determine color and the COM of the blocks
- We are working on interfacing the Teensy with the tablet
Future Shit
- We want to finish the brushes prototype by Sunday for verification
Materials
- We bought a broom from a hardware store to make our own brushes (might need to buy another)
- We are deciding between using nuts on screws w/ spacers and straight up hex shafts for power transmission
- We need to figure out the surface material for the ramp and chute (raw MDF surface? paper? epoxy? aluminum foil/tape?)
  - maybe this stuff? - mitchell

01/11/2016

EECS
- Computer vision code spits out an approximate angle and distance to travel given the COM of the blocks. Goal is to make this code more robust for red and green
- Planned out pins for the Teensy to read from sensors, gyro, motors, and encoders