{"id":10,"date":"2020-02-15T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-02-20T01:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:13:44","slug":"serris-status-update-for-2-17-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/2020\/02\/15\/serris-status-update-for-2-17-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Serris&#8217; Status Update for 2\/15\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Started coding in the Arduino IDE but my OS version was not compatible so I used the Beta version but it kepy crashing<\/li>\n<li>I was able to get some motor functions but it was not consistent<\/li>\n<li>Decided to look directly controlling the motors through MicroPython to skip the intermediate step<\/li>\n<li>Installed the device drivers for the microcontrollers to be recognized<\/li>\n<li>Running into issues connecting\u00a0 to the correct serial port of my NodeMCU using MicroPython<\/li>\n<li>Progress is as expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/2020\/02\/15\/serris-status-update-for-2-17-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Serris&#8217; Status Update for 2\/15\/20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[9,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}