Here you can find copies of our Final Poster Presentation as both a PowerPoint and a PDF.
This is a link to our Demo Video
Logan Weekly Status Report (5/8)
We were really happy with the progress we made last week. This week was really putting the final touches on everything. I attached the reloading hopper to the back of the device along with the affixing the Jetson in the case. I also tuned the distance function of the launcher to match up with the distance that the CV system sends over.
I started testing more to gather data for the launcher metrics. These tests are the same as the ones we presented but I just want to make sure we have a sufficient pool of data to work with for our final report and poster.
Overall I’m proud of what we made. I think it was an interesting challenge and I’ve enjoyed getting this up and running.
JP Weekly Status Report 5/1/2021
This week, Logan and I worked in TechSpark most of the time. We were integrating the launcher with the cup detection modules and placing it in the housing. Logan tuned the motors and fabricated the motor base and servos. I helped him by laser cutting the loader. We actually went thru 5-6 different designs by the time we found one that was accurate. For a while, we thought that a ramp would work. We quickly found out that the angle of the shot was very unpredictable with a ramp loader. We finally settled on a much smaller loader, that slowly feeds the ball into the spinning DC motors with a servo. This design was the most accurate and consistent. It also allowed Logan to easily implement an automatic reload system.
Old Ramp Loader:
Final Loader:
I was also able to calibrated the cup detection module, so we could use it in different environments. I created a simple command-line tool to run the cup-detection, targeting, and launching E2E. We feel like we are in a very good place since we have been able to make cups, and our data from testing is very consistent! Check out Logan’s status report for some videos of our progress.