This week, we have made the decision to not use the ToF sensor to measure distance off of the ground, and instead decided to measure distance using the CV system we already had set up. This was due to a number of reasons; firstly, we were quite concerned about hitting our weight requirement, as the Arduino Nano, IMU, casing, battery, wires, and peripherals were quite heavy. Secondly, having to connect the ToF sensor as well as the IMU to the microcontroller might have required the use of a breadboard or other peripherals we weren’t sure we had access to. Since we already had the CV system set up, it was quite easy to implement distance off of the ground, since the CV was already measuring the user’s hand position, relative to their body and height.
This week, I spend a lot of time trying to debug the ToF sensor and get it working via I2C protocol, which ended up not being necessary for our project. I was also able to start looking into 3D printing files for our casing around the whole frisbee.