This week we encountered a few hiccups in what we’d originally planned to do. I wanted to get a head start on interfacing between our parts (specifically the motor and doorlock), so that way the hardware be able to support the back end software/code, but our parts ended up taking a while to get delivered (arrived late on Friday). As a result, I instead focused my efforts into the design presentation that we’ll be doing on Monday. I have a good enough idea as to how things will connect, so I decided to focus on just making sure the presentation would be okay.
Open issues: catching up to time. I’m confident we’ll be able to get back on track. I also need to get some of the basic interfacing done, and read through the servo motor instructions and look at tutorials on disassembling the door lock so we can get started with everything. Finally, there were some hardware issues with the Arduino, so I wasn’t able to get it tested as of this week. I’ll also look to do basic debugging by next week.
Next week will target these three open issues to get back on track and start working.