This week, I focused on the design report. I finalized all aspects of communication and physical connections between all hardware components on the robot. I also roughly laid out where all hardware components will be on the robot in the robot’s block diagram. I redid all calculations for numbers in the design report, and I rechecked these numbers with my previous work I used in the design presentation.
Due to the robot car kit, Teensy 4.1 microcontroller, and H-Bridges being ordered last week and the following week being a break, I am behind. This upcoming week, I plan on working extra hard to finish assembling the robot car kit and finishing the core programming of the robot. This includes the communication between the Teensy 4.1 and Raspberry Pi (UART communication) and the naive movement of the wheels (PWM module). I plan on pushing the encoder module and PID control back a week since it isn’t a part of the key functionality of the robot car. Pushing these modules back a week ensures that Rose and Elly can work on their parts without falling behind due to my error.