Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2020: Ashika K, Abha A, Jade T
This week, I worked on collecting data for story cohesion and user satisfaction. I had my family members fill in templated stories and then gave them to Ashika, who used them to determine story cohesion relative to random stories and the original Aesop’s fables. I …
This week, I mostly worked on assembling the robot. I also helped Jade collect data for speech recognition accuracy. First, I assembled the head and body of the robot. I put all of the electronics inside them and made sure everything still worked. One minor …
On Monday, I set up the face display and got code working on it to draw shapes and lines. This was a precursor so that I could debug issues with drawing shapes on a canvas before creating the actual face. On Wednesday, I worked with …
On Sunday, I cut out the cardboard pieces for the head, and one of the arms.I also found a mini servo motor in my home, so I attached that to the arm. I soldered the motor shield that came in last week, and attached it …
On Sunday, I tried to debug the issues with showing an image on the eyes display through an SD card. Initially, my plan was to put an image of a cat eye on the SD card, and the eye display would read it. Most of …
On Monday, I fixed a couple issues with the CAD of the body frame. I’ve also started the CAD for the head frame and figuring out how to redo the arms now that I don’t have access to a 3d printer. Initially, my plans involved …
The first part of the week was spent on figuring out how to deal with the coronavirus changes, since that majorly affected my part of the project. Since things were changing every day (wrt CMU, Techspark, where I would be, etc), it took me a …
The first part of my week was spent working on the design report. After that, since the SD cards had come in, I set up a Raspberry Pi with Jade’s help. Then I worked on setting up the display for the text. Although I didn’t …
This week, I focused on working on the design presentation/report and CADing the robot arm and body. I had a rough CAD for the presentation done. However, there were a few issues with that design as I didn’t have time to finalize it before the …
The first thing I did this week was work with Jade to determine the communication protocols between all of the hardware in this project. After we determined them, I created the system architecture diagram for our design report/presentation and for future reference. This week, my …