Status Reports
4 May
Team: The final home stretch has been a little hectic, but very rewarding for the team. We were finally able to branch out our larger power supply to a protoboard with larger 18 gauge wire, Read more…
Status Reports
27 April
Team: At the beginning of the week, we assembled the laser-cut housing with the motors and tested the entire setup with the cube in preparation for our final in-lab demo. We came across the issue Read more…
Status Reports
20 April
Team: The team is on pace to finish our minimum viable product (MVP) before our final in-lab demo this upcoming week. We ran into some problems with the motors and the power supply, and ended Read more…
Status Reports
13 April
Team: This week, we wired the six driver-motor setups in parallel and got all of the motors to rotate accordingly. We encountered an issue with reading a solution string, but managed to get the motors Read more…
Status Reports
6 April
Team: This week was demo week and in our demo we showed 2 things. The first thing we showed was cube state detection from beginning to end which outputted the solution string. The next thing Read more…
Status Reports
30 March
Team: The team has made a lot of progress since we first started. Since we are pretty confident in our ability to make one motor arm work, we’re positive we can duplicate the system for Read more…
Status Reports
23 March
Team: For this week, the team met with the staff to figure out what was expected from us. We have been making fairly steady progress in all three major components of the project. We decided Read more…
Status Reports
9 March
Team: With all our parts finally in house, the team is poised to make good progress the upcoming work week. Sam now has consistent lighting and can zero in on the correct HSV values we Read more…
Status Reports
2 March
Team: There are a few low risk items currently on the table. Firstly, the latest batch of orders has yet to arrive. We placed them February 20th, and with Amazon Prime shipping we expected all Read more…
Status Reports
23 February
Team: The biggest risks for this week are still contingent on the hardware components of the project. Sam and Lily are steadily making progress with the software with a few hiccups. We’ve made the necessary Read more…