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Team Status Report 5/8

This week we worked on the iOS application interface, the construction of our enclosure, and connecting different subsystems within the structure. The application is now looking nice, with only a few minor changes left to be made which should not pose too large a problem. The construction of the enclosure is coming along nicely and will be completed very soon. Finally, the integration of the subsystems is going smoothly and is very exciting to watch come together.

In the coming days, we will be finalizing these three aforementioned components and will be doing vigorous testing to ensure the system works as intended. We will also be completing the deliverables that will need to be turned in.

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Team Status Report 4/24

We went ahead and decided to place a second order for additional peristaltic pumps. This purchase still leaves us well under our budget and the additional pumps will double the pouring rate of our liquids. Currently, our drink dispensing portion takes around 2 minutes, so these additional pumps will help speed up the dispensing process.

In addition, Bluetooth was completed this week. We now have a solid, established connection between our iOS application and the ELEGOO Mega. This will allow us to actually create drinks ordered by the user, all that remains to be coded is software that tells the moving platform to move and connecting the software with the mechanical and hardware components.

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Team Status Report 3/27

This week we experienced some major setbacks as we had not yet received all the parts we had ordered. Due to this, we were not able to set up all the hardware components we had previously planned on developing. In light of this, we focused on the iOS application and were able to create both login and sign-up pages. In the coming week, we will begin to work on both the hardware components and enclosure for our system.

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Team Status Report (03/20)

This week we all met on Monday to sort through our package that arrived the previous week and we wanted to ensure that we received all required parts and begin to separate and go through them to ensure we did not need any further parts. However, while doing this process we realized we had forgotten to order a few parts needed for connection between devices and motors and hence added an updated version to our order list which we will place with Quinn next week.  The list is below:

 

As well as this we worked on our design presentation and finished it. We first outlined the entire report and split up the categories as we felt was logical. Tyler and Aryan primarily worked on the software layer and redesigned the software system diagram and Tom worked on the System Diagram and Object Model as well as lower-level diagram of the wiring between Bluetooth module ELAGOO MEGA and the motors. We all evenly split up the other sections of the report such as design requirements, risk mitigation, project management and budget.  Our detailed report can be found on the website as well.

 

We’re all very excited to begin the implementation stage and hopefully share some working motors videos to you next week!

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Team Status Report for 3/13

Our parts arrived this week! We went through all of them and ensured everything we ordered was there (which they were!).

The feedback from our design proposal presentation made us realize we were missing a lot of detail about our design, so we spent the first part of the week ironing out some of the wrinkles. We noticed that we were going to need to order some parts we previously neglected and will organize and send an order hopefully sometime next week.

Our previous thoughts on implementing the bottle casing had us thinking we would use valves and hold the bottles upside-down for dispensing. After some thought we chose to use peristaltic pumps in lieu of valves, removing the need to create a structure that could support multiple inverted bottles.

Receiving the majority of our parts was a huge milestone for us, as now we can begin the building phase of the project. We hope to begin building the casing to house the hardware and bottles and are waiting only on the wood we ordered to arrive in order to start. However, if the wood does not end up coming soon, we will begin work on the hardware and software components.

In the coming week, we will be finishing our design report and beginning to work on the construction of our project.

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Team Status Report for 3/6

At this point in our project, out most significant risk is parts we want to order being out of stock. We’ve been periodically monitoring how much of each part we want is left in stock and have several back-up options for many of our parts. We’re also prepared to slightly modify our design if needed to accommodate certain parts being out of stock.