{"id":44,"date":"2021-09-18T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f21-teama5\/?p=44"},"modified":"2021-09-19T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:23:57","slug":"lucass-status-report-week-of-9-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f21-teama5\/2021\/09\/18\/lucass-status-report-week-of-9-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas’s Status Report: Week of 9\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello World!<\/span><\/p>\n

The main team goals for this week were to finalize technical requirements and write up course documentation (gantt chart schedule, proposal slide deck, website, etc.). I mainly worked on the solution approach, preliminary system diagrams, and technical requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"TracKat\u00a0<\/span>I also researched BLE modules, RFID parts, and weight sensors, and worked with MeeDm to conduct a trade study of using BLE versus WiFi. We ultimately settled on the BLE standard because of its superior power consumption and reduced implementation complexity. I researched the benefits and trade-offs of sensing weight via load cells versus force sensitive resistors – for our use case, the much higher accuracy and granularity achievable with load cells makes them the clear choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the week, I scrounged up free parts from the Robotics Club and Ideate Physical Computing Lab in order to spearhead getting a demo of our system running as fast as possible. I got basic RFID and weight sensing working with Arduino Unos and Nanos and will have Bluetooth ready early this upcoming week. I designed a simple load cell mount in Solidworks and 3D printed it, and will work on getting the whole demo together into a clean package this upcoming week.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Load \"Load<\/p>\n

\"Assembled \"Assembled<\/p>\n

\"Arduino<\/p>\n