This past week I’ve made significant progress on the simulation front. I worked on getting the side view working given the inputs of handHeight, vertical angle, and vertical velocity. This allows the viewer to get a much better sense of how the object is moving in time. I was able Read more…
This past week has been a bit of a challenge because I realized there were errors in my understanding of how the trajectory would be found given the inputs, and as a result, realized my calculations were all off. Therefore, I’ve had to pivot a bit and reanalyze my code. Read more…
This past week I moved a bit away from the simulation and focused my efforts on calculating trajectories for any data that I have been given from the IMUs. First I have set up some constraints on the data. For instances such as where the angle in the Z (vertical) Read more…
This week I’ve been working on the Processing simulation aspect of the project. The current design is to take the X,Y, and Z components of the angle and velocity vectors of the ball, along with the height as shown below. Then with the given inputs produce two different views of Read more…
This week we decided that it would be best if I would focus on building the simulation part of the project. This is due to the fact we didn’t need all three members working on the Hand motion sensing aspect, and since Luca and Dan had a much better grasp Read more…
This past week has been a tumultuous one. Together we’ve been trying to figure out the best way forward. I was saddened to find out that we won’t be able to build the robot anymore, especially since even though that was one of my smaller parts, I was really looking Read more…
This week I was primarily on spring break but in my free time I did more research about integration the Jetson with the Photon. I was able to find some sample code for both sending and receiving data between the two modules, and I have been looking at personalizing it Read more…
This week I focused on figuring how the Particle Photon will transmit data over WiFi to the NVIDIA Jetson Nano and how the Jetson will control the servo motors in the Moebius omnidirectional wheel base. The Photon and Jetson will be placed on the base, both powered by a portable Read more…
This week we had some issues ordering the mobile base we wanted, so Dan and I did some digging to find an alternative quickly. We then took a deeper dive into the system architecture and I focused on looking at how the MPU 950 will be connecting to the Particle Read more…
Over the course of the past week, I did a lot of research with regards to different options involving the base of our motorized device, its wheels, and power source. At first, we played around with the idea of constructing the base ourselves, but having consistently respondent and changing power Read more…