Schedule Per our Gantt Chart, this week I was supposed to set up the servo motors. However, I’m lagging a bit behind this week, partially due to the short week, but my other classes are also taking up much more time than expected. Progress This Week This week I was able to work more on the stepper motors. I wrote some python code for the servos but have not tested with the Raspberry Pi (will have to coordinate with Arka…
Schedule Per our Gantt Chart, this week I was supposed to set up the stepper motors. I was able to do some of it, but a lot of this week was focused on the Design Proposal. Progress This Week This week, besides working on the design proposal slides, presentation, and report, I was able to obtain the stepper motors and drivers and check whether or not I could interface them with an Arduino Uno. Using an Arduino Uno allows me…
This week I did a lot of research into part purchases with Maxine. I looked into the motors, and how to control the different parts of the mechanical system. We knew that we wanted 3 stepper motors to control the XY motion, some way of gripping, some way of rotating the gripper, and a way to control the Z motion (as mentioned last week). After research, we decided on a NEMA 17 with a A4988 stepper driver for ease of…
This week was the first week we began working on our project. After our proposal presentations, we received some feedback about our confidence level with the robotics portion. We are excited to tackle the challenges, but as we mentioned in our proposal, we are definitely not familiar with robotics. We (Maxine and I) wanted to start planning the 2DOF XY movement portion while doing some more research into the gripping mechanism. (Jiaqi had suggested a prismatic joint for our claw…