This week I met with a mentor to discuss the loading system for the embosser, so we can finally order parts. I testing a few compliant surfaces and found that felt mounted on styrofoam would be a great surface to print on.
I made some modifications to the loading system which include sensors to help determine where the paper is on the y gantry system, and side panels to ensure the paper is registered correctly.
I also realized that controlling all of this hardware with the raspberry pi may not be the best idea, because a lot of hardware controls tend to act pretty fast, and theyre may be latency introduced by having software and hardware processes done all on one unit