{"id":127,"date":"2024-10-20T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/?p=127"},"modified":"2024-10-20T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T11:31:02","slug":"jacks-status-report-10-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/2024\/10\/20\/jacks-status-report-10-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack&#8217;s Status Report 10\/20\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to finalize the BOM for the robotic arm and order parts. Currently waiting for parts to arrive. In the process of finalizing the BOM, I made a decision to use a single 3D printer driver board instead of 4 stepper motor driver boards separately. This choice enables us to zero the stepper motors using built in current sensing. Furthermore, it will simplify the robotic arm software because I can send Gcode commands in the form of XYZ coordinates over UART to move the motors. This way, I no longer have to do PWM in software simulaneously over 4 channels and also keep track of the motor position myself.<\/p>\n<p>I also got some software work done: I wrote some skeleton code for sending Gcode commads over UART to the robot arm. As soon as I get back to campus from fall break, I can start assembling the robot and start trying to deploy the exisitng parts of the software stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to finalize the BOM for the robotic arm and order parts. Currently waiting for parts to arrive. In the process of finalizing the BOM, I made a decision to use a single 3D printer driver board instead of 4 stepper motor driver boards separately. This choice enables us to zero the stepper &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/2024\/10\/20\/jacks-status-report-10-20-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jack&#8217;s Status Report 10\/20\/2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/f24-teamb1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}