This week we had a really big week of integration. We finalized the launcher, fabricated the final mechanism, placed electronics in the housing, integrated with the nano by finalizing the serial communication code, and began testing and calibration of the system. We spent many hours in techspark iterating on the launcher, landing on a design with a servo that gave us really good consistency in direction, with a little bit of variation left in distance to iron out still. The servo also allowed us to integrate our reloading mechanism.
Coming up this week is more calibration of launcher power delivery, and testing the robot in different lighting and table setups, as well as user testing against ourselves to see if we are able to play a full game.