This week, I spend a majority of the time working on the Design Report. We further fleshed out in detail the decisions we were making, such as the battery we chose to select as well as the hardware implementation and data calculations we would need to do in order to successfully implement the project.
Next week, I plan to play around some more with my Arduino UNO, and get the basic Arduino code setup done to test the sensors. We are doing all of our data calculations in a python program, so I will also attempt to create a slower Arduino version of those calculation to ease the workload of my group members.
Design Review Report
Team Status Report for 10/4
This week, we spent a lot of time working on our design presentation. We fleshed out both our hardware and software implementations, and specified our Gantt chart in more detail. We are currently on track with our schedule.
This week, we added a software step in our software implementation that included syncing all our data, as we realized that the multiple sources of inputs (webcam, Arduino Nano) would potentially cause out of sync data. This should be relatively simple to implement, since all of the hardware has this capability of sending timestamped data.
In the case that this does not work, we will try assuming data sync, since there is already low latency with both the camera and the sensors. If that does not work, we will try sending the webcam data to the Arduino Nano/RPi to sync the data all together.
This next week, we are planning to work on the design report, and once we receive our critiques, order our hardware sensors.
Frances’ Status Report for 10/4
This week, I worked on the design presentation and specifically focused on the hardware implementation solution plan. I continued my research on the ideal parts, and started tinkering with my personal Arduino UNO. I also picked up the RPi we will be using, so in the following week, I plan to set up the wifi communication between the two of them to get some baseline wifi latency measurements. This next week, I also plan to spend a lot of time writing our design document. Once we have the feedback from our design presentation, I will go ahead and order the important sensors for our project.
Frances’ Status Report for 9/27/25
A majority of this week was researching the parts list and fleshing out how the frisbee controller would be implemented. We have settled on using a RPi 5 and an Arduino Nano ESP32 for our microcontrollers, a BNO085 Smart IMU for the IMU, and a VL53L8CX for our ToF sensor. We have also settled on using OpenPose to get spatial information that is critical to our design. I have requested the RPi 5 from the 18-500 Parts List, and I have an Arduino Uno at home that I have started tinkering around and writing code with. We are planning to order the sensors and the other microcrontroller later next week, after our Design Presentation.
The other majority of my week was used on putting together the presentation slide deck and creating our block diagrams.
Team Status Report for 9/21/25
This week, our team successfully created our Proposal Presentation, and presented it. We spent much of our time researching the needed requirements and finalizing the preliminary solution approach, therefore giving us a good idea of what parts and setup we need to being working.
We also spent a good amount of time reviewing our peers’ Proposals as well, giving constructive critiques.
We are currently still on schedule, as this upcoming week will include more research into parts needed as well as the setup required to start working.
Frances’ Status Report for 9/21/25
This week, I spent time creating and practicing our Proposal Presentation. Because I was in charge of presenting, I spent time rereading our abstract as well as reviewing the critiques we had previously received from our capstone advisors to make sure I had a good handle on what our use-case and use-case requirements were. Similarly, I also spent time researching on the specific quantitative metrics that we wanted to meet for our use-case requirements, making sure that they were reasonable and achievable goals.
I spent the rest of my time this week reviewing the proposals that other teams presented, and critiquing their proposals as well.
In this upcoming week, I hope to finalize the parts for the initial parts order, by researching different sensors and finding those that will match our weight requirements.