{"id":140,"date":"2023-03-19T03:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T03:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/?p=140"},"modified":"2023-03-19T03:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T03:08:06","slug":"jeffs-status-report-for-3-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/2023\/03\/19\/jeffs-status-report-for-3-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff\u2019s Status Report for 3\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Personal Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week I was able to test our light detection circuit in actual sunlight and was able to extract the threshold for sunlight as shown below in figure 1. I was also able to get the stepper motor working. It can rotate in both direction and at different speeds and duration.\u00a0 I also set up the initial serial interface to receive some basic commands from the serial monitor (currently just adjusting the direction of the rotation.\u00a0 I also learned how to use Cura for 3D printing slicing for the 3D printing request for the gear to turn the blind. I submitted a request for a quote to make sure it fits in our budget as shown in figure 2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/237\/2023\/03\/directsunlight.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"274\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/237\/2023\/03\/ambientlight.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>figure 1: Left is direct sunlight, Right is ambient light<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-144\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/237\/2023\/03\/printReq-300x62.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/237\/2023\/03\/printReq-300x62.png 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/237\/2023\/03\/printReq-768x159.png 768w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/237\/2023\/03\/printReq.png 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am current still on schedule and no need for adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plans for Next Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The motor currently turns very slowly and I&#8217;ve been researching how to make it turn faster. I found a few solutions and plan on implementing them and testing it next week. I also hope the gear gets printed by next week so I can attach it to the motor and begin testing on the actual blinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Progress This week I was able to test our light detection circuit in actual sunlight and was able to extract the threshold for sunlight as shown below in figure 1. I was also able to get the stepper motor working. It can rotate in both direction and at different speeds and duration.\u00a0 I also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/2023\/03\/19\/jeffs-status-report-for-3-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeff\u2019s Status Report for 3\/18&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}