This week’s accomplishments
- Attended mandatory labs
- Finished the team’s ethical assignment
- Personally answered 2 of the 5 ethical questions required for the written portion
- attended the ethics-based lectures
- Finished altering the digital scale to allow its integration
- Will need to finish testing the signals from the scale. Whilst attempting to tare and orient the scale, received some rogue and incorrect signals. Will need to troubleshoot and possibly replace the AD/C component if errors continue. Next, will need to ensure the rpi properly receives the signal (as I’ve been doing the testing on my PC).
Next weeks plan
- Finish integrating the scale into the project.
- Troubleshoot the system. More than likely due to a bad AD/C converter. Once the errors are ironed out, will ensure the signals are properly read by the rpi.
- Continue designing and creating custom movement patterns on the 3-D printer for the pour patterns.
- was unable to work much on this aspect this past week due to errors related to the scale
- Plan out cable management for the added components (including the wires coming from the scale). Will be important to ensure the safe operation of the machine (so that no boiling water comes in contact with wires or exposed components).
Status Report: On schedule