It is crunch time. This week I spent the most amount of time and accomplished the most on the project. Starting before the break I worked on the final presentation slides and did some small tweaks to the MVP pipeline code which included splitting the PDFs to the gantry size and sending the gcode to the motors. Then after Thanksgiving break, I worked early in the week on some physical optimizations to the physical hardware such as perfecting the lengths of the belts for the wheels and doing some wire management (hopefully more to come). Additionally I made more changes to the software pipeline such as fixing bugs with the splitting calculations, optimizing the gcode pathing algorithm, and cleaning up the website. I also helped with moving the code from our local computer to be hosted on the Raspberry Pi. Now the project is functional. There are still a few changes that can be made before demo day such as some hardware to limit the vibrations of the gantry and some extra UI/UX for the website, but the MVP is finished.
Next week, I will wrap up the project with the video, final website changes, and report.