This week I played a lot of catchup in preparation for the interim demo. Early in the week I finished 3D printing the necessary parts and helped Andrew assemble some of the gantry. The gantry assembly was finished on Wednesday, which allowed me to test the PDF to SVG file converter that I started this week. Then I integrated Andrew’s local host website on the Flask server with my converted to allow for PDF uploads to the site and convert them to SVG automatically. The original intention was to host the site and do the SVG conversion on the Raspberry Pi 5, but we had some hiccups connecting to the Pi which needs some further evaluation. This means I had to change our approach for the demo and make the code be able to work on one of our team members’ computers instead.
Looking forward to next week, assuming the interim demo goes as planned, I will make changes to the existing gantry design. For the demo we plan to have the gantry functional horizontally so some modified parts are required for vertical drawing. Additionally, I want to order the parts for the structure which can hopefully arrive and start assembly in the back half of the week or the start of the week after.