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.
Alex’s Status Report for 9/20
This week I spent time looking into the sensors we are planning on using for the project. We decided on using an IMU sensor to calculate the angle of the frisbee and the acceleration, a Time of Flight sensor to find how far off the ground the frisbee is and a camera to see at where the player’s body is. We are still looking into how to decide when the player release’s the frisbee.
This next week I hope to have decided on which sensors to purchase and buy them that way we can begin testing the sensors. This will allow us to figure out if these sensors are the ones we want to use for the project.
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.
Songting’s Status Report for Sept 21
This week, I successfully set up Unity Engine on my MacBook. I registered for an educational account, granting me access to the full range of Unity features. I created a dummy project and explored various functionalities. Following a brief tutorial on YouTube, I built a simple model in Unity and added physics properties, such as Rigidbody and Gravity. Additionally, I linked the object to a C# code file that allows me to apply force and move the object around.
I feel like I’m making good progress this week; understanding the basics is crucial. For next week, I plan to collaborate with my teammates to finalize the game UI and start searching for resource packs online or in the Unity Asset Store that we can utilize.