Status Reports

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, as recommended by Professor Sullivan. With our heat problems handled, we focused the rest of Read more…

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 of the power supply melting our solderless breadboard. With the 12V2A power supply, our motors Read more…

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 up opting for a power supply with less voltage and current to ensure safety. As Read more…

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 turning with respect to one-character commands (i.e. instead of F1, we have F working). We noticed that Read more…

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 we showed was our motor successfully turning 2 faces of the cube. The most significant Read more…

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 all six faces of the cube. Our biggest hurdle as a team, is ensuring we Read more…

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 that if we could have one motor arm be able to read and input and Read more…

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 need to properly scan the cube. Lily has the foundation set for her solver. JT Read more…

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 the items in by now. We’ll be following up with staff to ensure we can Read more…

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 purchases to ensure the cube state detection is done in a controlled environment. While the Read more…