Team B5: Codeblox

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). After more hours of debugging and redesigning the firmware and protocol, it finally works. Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule? Behind schedule.  We will make…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). Made 8 complete codeblox tiles. Integrated with Aarohi’s code. Found out that our firmware is fundamentally too slow and had to redo the communication layer to operate within timer interrupt handlers to ensure that deadlines would not be missed. Spent sooooo many…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). Finished the firmware.  Still need to test some edge cases, but we are waiting for more tiles to do that. Cut out all the wood for the enclosures. Fully assembled two Codeblox’s. Are currently assembling and soldering more. Is your progress on…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). I helped Melodee to get the firmware working on the tile.  Currently the communication layer appears to be fully working.  The following video demonstrates the tile sending the message 42 to its neighbor and then receiving the message 42 back. https://photos.app.goo.gl/JkAQCH757ZkJdQmE6 Now…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). I soldered together 4 PCB’s and tested the circuit to confirm that the IR communication works and that the reflective sensors can distinguish between black and white. Melodee and I experimented with various woodworking techniques to assemble these enclosures and were able…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). All the parts finally arrived and I just soldered together the first PCB.  I tested programming the micro-controller and tested the serial interface to it.  Those both worked. When assembling the first one, I realized that I forgot a very essential resistor…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). Including what we did over spring break: received the components we wanted to use for our first iteration of the design Attempted to solder a surface mount version of the microcontroller to an adapter.  This took a long time and as a…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). I finalized a BOM, circuit, and PCB layout and ordered some parts from Digikey. We received those parts and tested some of them to confirm our design. I also attempted solder the surface mount version of the micro-controller to a smt to…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). Worked on and practiced presentation Made a schematic and Eagle PCB layout for the tile’s circuit.  See the picture from the design presentation. After the presentation, I discovered that our power requirements would subject users to dangerously high currents and unpleasantly high…

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). I set up the microcontroller on a breadboard to measure power requirements, clock skew, and boot time. The result of the boot time test was that it is not perceptible.  As a result, we have removed the  boot time from our model…

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