Best ball is rollingggg. This week we began to reach the end game and also work toward finalizing the project.
I personally spent some time integrating our lipo batteries with our IMUs. At first I was skeptical but I was able to unplug the unit and maintain a bluetooth connection which was great. Once we have our IMU’s code finalized, we are planning to do a full length test of the battery life. From our calculations, it seems like this should last over an hour.
Secondly, I submitted some updated balls to be 3D printed. We need these balls to not be black because we found out that the black material actually absorbs that LiDAR? Not certain, however, when we use the black 3D printed balls they no longer appear on the LiDAR.
Lastly, I worked to refine the LiDAR to be better at detecting the balls location particularly around the edge. Currently, the LiDAR needs to spend a cycle or two measuring and then saving the edges of the frame. This allows for the LiDAR to tell the difference between the ball and the edges. What I modified was how this is done, some of the more parallel edges are hard to get enough samples from, so, for those areas only, I added 10 more cycles of the LiDAR and that seems to do the trick.
Overall, we are on schedule, however, I would have liked to have more done for our final presentation. Looks like some modifications will be made over next week and we will be finished and best balling come next week. Excited (and mildly stressed) for the next week!