Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Fall 2025: Songting W, Frances A, Alex K
This week, we continued what we have been working on so far; we spent a majority of this week working on our respective parts. Frances and Alex continue to work on the Arduino’s interface with the sensors, and Michael continues to implement more physics data into his Unity model.
We are slightly behind schedule, especially since the interim demo is next week, however we plan to continue working this week and getting our basic functionality ironed out.
This week, I was able to successfully get data communication between the Arduino Nano ESP32 that arrived and the IMU. I wrote some test Arduino code that just printed the acceleration and the angle of tilt, and I successfully used SPI communication protocol to transfer the data between the sensor and the computer. Next week, I will get the ToF sensor working, and have the Arduino able to communicate with both sensors.
This week, I continued my work on the physics code for the Unity Engine. I read additional papers on frisbee and disk physics. However, I am still encountering difficulties in perfecting the physics behavior of the more complex mesh of the frisbee.
I am slightly behind schedule due to my travels this week, but I plan to start working on the DPU next week. Hopefully, I will be able to process the data into a format that Unity can use.
This week on Monday we had the ethics section and I also worked on the ethics homework. Additionally we chatted as a group about the ethics of our project. I also found a better body tracking software is now working and has a much higher frame rate.
Next week, I hope to have all of the arudino code working and the ability to send the data from the arduino to the computer and take inputs into unity.
This week most of the parts were shipped and allowed us to begin testing the devices. I soldered the pieces together and helped write the arduino code that would be used for testing each of the systems that we are working.
Next week, I plan on finishing up my open pose work and trying to set up the integration between open pose and the python.