Final Report
After 4 years of learning and a semester on this project…we have finished the Final Report! Here’s the link: Final Report (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EV2S29R-QmkGPEwUcrn_wWzWVclAonNh/view)
Claire’s Status Update 05/03
Schedule This week is the second to last week, and I have been working on the very last parts of the course – the report and the final presentation. Progress This Week This week was final presentations! Most of our time was spent on working on the final report because we were unsure of what the next steps for the video were going to be. But once the handout was released we got planning! Right now we’re writing up our…
Claire’s Status Update for 04/26
Schedule This week we were scheduled to work on the final presentation and report. It’s the final stretch and we want to make sure we finish our presentation strong! Progress This Week This week Maxine and I split up some sections of the final report as Arka continued working on the software side. I worked on the architecture and introduction. And once we all got together for our weekly meetings, our team worked on the final presentation. As I worked…
Claire’s Status Update for 04/19
Schedule This week we are scheduled to work on integration. Progress This Week This week Maxine and I were able to integrate the gripper with the gantry. We then decided we wanted to get a head start on the design document and analysis. Since I was originally responsible for the motors, I took on stepper analysis for the 6 steppers we used in out system. This included how XY distance would be moved with each step, how a half-step might…
Claire’s Status Update for 04/12
Schedule This week’s task was to work on the Z rotation. The gripper was originally offloaded across these 3 weeks, but this week I had some additional time to work on it. Progress This Week Since Maxine and I looked into how to integrate this week, we realized that integration with how we split up the work was going to be quite seamless. She looked into how to mount the bracket on my rack and pinion structure, and with that,…
Claire’s Status Update for 04/05
Schedule This week’s task was to work on the Z linear motion, and along with Maxine, finish the gripper. Progress This Week This week, Maxine and I made a couple adjustments to the schedule. Since the gantry turned out to be a lot more components than we expected, I’m now responsible also for the gripper. I was able to finish the Z linear motion. First, I made a rack and pinion structure. And since I found it likely to be…
Claire’s Status Update for 03/29
Schedule The newly updated schedule can be seen in our weekly team meeting. From this updated Gantt chart, this week’s focus is scoping and learning about Fusion 360 and seeing if it can work. Progress This Week This week, I was able to accomplish what our Gantt chart set out. I set up Fusion 360 and tried to follow a few tutorials. I realized that creating each component from scratch was going to be very time consuming and quite difficult….
Team Status Update for 03/22
This week has been wild. A global pandemic hit and now capstone is remote. No one expected this, so the course staff also took some time to respond. This week has been us trying to adjust to our new reality. We spent our meetings discussing how to proceed in the class. In terms of our project, we will have to rescope. In terms of meeting times, we settled on keeping the same time, since Claire and Maxine would be in…
Claire’s Status Update for 03/22
Schedule Throughout Spring Break, COVID-19 hit hard, and while I was on my last days on break, we received word from the university that there will be no academic reason to come back to campus and we were strongly encouraged to go home. This is going to be a pretty big hardship in our hardware-based project. Progress This Week This week, I packed my bags and moved out of Pittsburgh and back to Taiwan. Besides that, our capstone has been…
Team Status Update for 03/15
This week we were finally able to get over a lot of the bottlenecks that were preventing us from continuing. We got the rods we were waiting for (they ended up being in the 1300 wing all this time, but the ticket was never updated). The Raspberry Pi is completely set up. We ordered some new parts, including a new camera, which should be able to fix some of our image quality issues. Maxine was able to print everything from…