This week, I mainly helped Tate prepare for the Design Review presentation and began working on the design report. I have added more detail to our system diagram and started filling out our BOM in more detail. I also decided to modify our mechanism to follow the design of a previous project of mine so that we can reuse parts and do not need to waste time CADing/3D-printing. We will need to slightly modify the mechanism’s dimensions, gear size, and moving platform to fit our project. From my calculations, a 1.65″ diameter gear with our 600rpm stepper motor should be able to meet our mechanism latency metric. The other modifications have also been accounted for. In addition to working on the mechanism, I met with my team today to begin testing our sensors. So far, all sensors except our load sensor have been tested.
My progress is currently on schedule. Next week, I hope to continue working on the design report. Then, I hope to start attaching the sensors to our platform and start building the image classifier.