This past week, we had our preliminary demo. While the directional part of the IMU module was working properly, last weekend we discovered that the other IMU was not working, so our idea of having two IMUs ready to demo did not work out. The other IMU had problems with the magnetometer, leading to a “garbage in garbage out” situation with the motion classification as well as issues with IMU accuracy due to the accelerometer. Maybe my soldering skills were rusty, so I ordered a new IMU unit to test without soldering to see if that was the issue. In my defense, I shall invoke the time-honored tradition of blaming the equipment. Most of the soldering irons in the lab were complete garbage and could only melt solder at certain angles after a certain amount of time instead of melting the solder instantly. Anyways, tomorrow we’ll go into some basic fabrication so we’ll see how that goes.
