Week of Mar 23 – Mar 30 Administrivia Had to work on and turn in the second ethics assignment. Project This week I worked on a few different things to help get the project ready for our midpoint demo next
Team Status Report: Week 5
Risks and Contingencies Realized that the RFID scanner we got may not be fast enough. Might not have enough GPIO pins on the rpi to be able to do everything we want to do. As a possible solution, we can
Bujji’s Status Report: Week 5
Week of Mar 16 – Mar 23 Administrivia None. Project This week I worked on a few different things to help get the project ready for our midpoint demo in two weeks: RFID: Found a good library that wrote the
Team Status Report: Week 4
Risks and Contingencies No new risks were identified this week. Camera stabilization and latency still remain our biggest risk factors and challenges. Changes to Design No major design changes were made this week. Schedule Update A little behind on our
Bujji’s Status Report: Week 4
Week of Mar 3 – Mar 9 Administrivia As a group, we spent nearly all of March 3 preparing our design review report and hashing out any last minute discrepancies we had about the project. This actually was a really
Bujji’s Status Report: Week 3
Week of Feb 24 – Mar 2 Worked on preparing for the design presentation on Monday. Had to put together the following diagrams to help explain the hardware aspects of our project. Continued work on the model of the car.
Bujji’s Status Report: Week 1
Week (Feb 10 – Feb 16) Worked out most of the bill of materials: IR Circuit: Researched how to improve the range of a traditional IR sensor and arrived at the below circuit (found at https://www.electroschematics.com/6114/long-range-ir-transmitter/). Circuit below can reach
Team Status Report: Week 2
Risks and Contingencies Identified that camera stabilization will be a significant issue for our project. We decided to add both hardware and software counter-measures to the project in order to mitigate this hazard with a stabilization rig using rubber bands
Bujji’s Status Report: Week 2
Week of Feb 17 – Feb 23 Finalized design of IR transmitter and receiver. Met with Professor Mukherjee and had him review and approve of both of the circuits. Continued work on the model of the car. Almost all features