This week I worked on:
- Rescoping our project because our original proposal was too difficult. Our initial hardware design had too many moving components and required extensive CAD design and machining in order to create and assemble the parts. After discussing with professor Mukherjee, we created a new, more detailed hardware design linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n_NDpZC0ni2qttofl1uJjUk9jUlInqgykfnHyiBxZws/edit
This design requires little to no CAD or creating new parts, using items we can purchase online. I wrote the documentation based on our discussions as a team and I made the torque calculations. - looking into what motors we need for our design. I included this into the documentation, but we are looking for a 360 degree servo with at least 1 Nm of torque.
For next week:
- Decide on the exact parts we need for our design. We want feedback from course staff of our design first before we do this. In our current design, we are looking for:
- Turntable bearing
- Metal-metal epoxy
- Metal Ring
- Servo
- Controller
- Base
- Flesh out our software design. I will look into what libraries are available online for web scraping and clothing recognition and decide which ones we will try to use. I will also create the API between our software components, defining what each component needs to be able to do and how our system works together.
- Prepare for the design presentation. We will work on the slides as a group, but I will be presenting it.