Justin’s Status Report for 2-18-23

This week I continued doing research for which parts I should order. My main focus was in whether or not to use a RPi instead of an Arduino. The main tradeoff is between price and ease-of-use. Many of the sensors I am planning to use are preconfigured for Arduino, but I would have to buy an Arduino while I could simply borrow RPis from the inventory. I also did research on how to write programs for the two microcontrollers to see if that would sway my decision. I eventually decided to choose Arduino and if necessary, I can borrow RPis later. My progress is on schedule as while I budgeted this time to order and receive parts, there are still some components that will not arrive until next week. Next week I hope to get the data transfer between the Arduino and laptop completed, and be able to test how often data can be sent between the two. Our project used principles from 18-349 Embedded Systems, 18-341 Logic Design and Verification, and 33-141 Physics 1. 349 and 341 both deal with communicating between devices, and Physics 1 was used for the shot calculations.