This week our team was mostly focused on creating our design document, which consumed most of our time in addition to the discussion we had during class on Monday. None of our new parts arrived, but we have completed ordering all of the requisite parts and should all arrive by after break.
No new risks have developed for our project as a whole, but we are still faced with risks regarding the success of completing the gantry and having an effective mapping from the digital image to series of paint strokes. These portions are being mitigated by us concentrating our efforts on these goals continuously.
Minor changes have been made to our design, and the total design has been finalized with the completion of our design document. Our gantry will now operate on special watercolor paper which should be more robust to warping. This has dimensions of 5×7 inches, meaning we have much more space available in the design of our board. The interface layers have also been finalized, where the gantry control layer exposes an initialization function and a draw stroke function, which are the only means of communication with the painting algorithm, allowing it to be controlled very simply.
This week we were not able to move forward as much as we would have liked due to the significant portion of work of creating the design document and our parts not arriving. An order mixup resulted in us not receiving our bearings, which meant we were not able to test compatibility of the shafts with the bearings or test the 3D printed bearing mounts. Our schedule has also been updated as of the design document and the most up-to-date schedule is included here.
