Month: November 2020

This week I worked mostly on sending the move information from the webapp server to the separate running process. I also had to fix some of the messaging from last week, since I had a synchronization issue that I didn’t notice until this week.

Changes

• We have decided to use copper foil tape for the circuitry of the board, letting us more easily integrate the detection subsystem with the movement subsystem.

Progress Pictures

• Holes in pieces + a ferrous nut that will go inside each piece.

This week I worked on the communication between an Arduino and the Webapp. I wrote a program to get basic system information from an arduino, one that controls the arduino, code to send moves to the webapp server from a separate running application, and code to relay the moves to the players in a game.

This week I worked mostly on the pieces and the planning of the board top. I created the full plans for the pieces, although the designs remain pencil-and-paper, but everything is laid out. Right now I am waiting for parts.

For the pieces, I drilled holes in them, found an appropriate material for the magnet to attach to, and am waiting for my order to keep working on it. Pics in the group report.

For the board top, I’m commissioning it from TechSpark woodshop and then drilling holes into it.

This week, I fixed some bugs related to the sockets and login authentication, and started working on the arduino to computer communication.  I’ve created a separate node.js application that uses johnny five to control the arduino and mqtt to communicate between this application and the web app. Next week, I am going to work further on this, and I want to have actual integration between the arduino and web app by the end of the week.