Serris’ Status Update for 2/15/20

  • The parts we ordered last week came so I was able to start building our robot cars. We got 2 different frames (one with a chassis kit and one with individual parts); we wanted to compare the motors and movement of both builds. I built one car, connecting the NodeMCU and L293D IC motor controller.
  • Started coding in the Arduino IDE but my OS version was not compatible so I used the Beta version but it kepy crashing
  • I was able to get some motor functions but it was not consistent
  • Decided to look directly controlling the motors through MicroPython to skip the intermediate step
  • Installed the device drivers for the microcontrollers to be recognized
  • Running into issues connecting  to the correct serial port of my NodeMCU using MicroPython
  • Progress is as expected

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