Over the past week we have been working on the two pending tasks on the schedule: final testing and housing. We laser cut the remainder of the pieces and attached them to the 3d printed arms and brackets we made before the break. The body is pretty sturdy and awaiting drop testing, but as a form of risk mitigation we still have our prototype. The new housing unit is completed (video) so the only other task in our schedule is to finish up testing. In today’s round of testing we had four trials:
Min: 1.27 m
Max: 2.84 m
Mean: 2.40 m
Median: 2.74
We have been making adjustments to the code as we go with our trials, like adjusting binary threshold and thrust from trial to trial. We have also been able to reduce the latency by removing a delay in the function that sends data to the Arduino via serial. The movement is much smoother after we made this change. Our goal for the next week to finish drop tests by Tuesday so we can switch focus to shooting our video and working on the final report.