In the beginning of this week we were preparing for final presentations and running enough tests to be able to put baseline metrics on our presentation slides. It was my turn to present, so I spent extra time preparing and practicing my presentation. The presentation went well and the slides Read more…
These past two weeks I finished the entire hardware and construction for the robot. I mounted the battery with a motor mount and mounted it to the side plank with a motor after measuring out where exactly the connection should go. I ordered a motor key that allowed me to Read more…
This week I made a lot of progress with the construction and hardware of the robot. The motor now runs well with the drill battery, 18V to 12V step down, and new Cytron Motor Driver. In the beginning of the week things were a little bit iffy because we Read more…
This week we had demo’s during class. So we started the week by preparing for these demos. We demonstrated the intake mechanism working with a drill and talked more about the construction of the robot and showed our bottle detection algorithm and our iRobot moving towards the bottle. After Read more…
This week I made a lot of progress on the construction of the robot with Serena’s help. We took the robot apart so that we could put the lexan we newly ordered underneath for the water bottle storage area. Before attaching the new piece of lexan I had to get Read more…
This week I made a lot of progress with implementing the design of the robot. In the beginning I worked with Professor Haider on cutting holes in our piece of lexan to go on top of the faceplate. She showed me how to use a Hole saw and we cut Read more…
These past two weeks I tested the robot intake with Serena and Mae, worked on ordering more necessary parts for the robot, updated the CAD to add passive wheels and worked on the Design Report. For the robot intake, I wanted to figure out a way to test it out Read more…
After the last status update last weekend, I CADed the basic parts of the robot. Below are pictures of the CADed robot from different angles. While I was CADing the robot, I also had to figure out exactly what parts to use and do research on one part over another. Read more…
This week after speaking with Tamal, we decided to pivot away from building a robot from scratch and using an iRobot as a base instead. In the beginning I was struggling with mounting on the iRobot and it being more restricted, but then came around to the idea after more Read more…
In the beginning of the week, Mae and I helped Serena with the Project Proposal Slides. During the slide preparations I made a rough Figma design of what the robot will look like. In the upcoming week I plan to fully CAD the design to understand the practicality of it Read more…