This week we’ve been integrating hardware, gyro algorithm, and software pieces together into a runnable game controller. Xiao has 3D printed a steering wheel case that encloses all the hardware components and wirings of the controller. Qiaoan has been working on the gyro tuning and refining the algorithm. There were some subtle bugs in our implementation of the Magwick algorithm which Qiaoan fixed this week. Yuxuan has been working on the lagging game data issue and was able to fix it by writing the data first into a file and reading them separately.
So far, we have a running mobile steering controller that controls the car via Bluetooth when buttons are pressed and when the steering wheels are rotated. The short demo video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0n3i1ka-VY.
Since we are still working on our final presentation so we haven’t done any quantitative tests yet, but the details of the test procedure will be included in the presentation. Next week’s focus will be following the test procedure and gathering quantitative test results. We also need to start working on the final report early to ensure its quality.