{"id":190,"date":"2024-04-28T01:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T01:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/?p=190"},"modified":"2024-04-28T01:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T01:40:51","slug":"elijah-knupps-status-report-for-april-20th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/2024\/04\/28\/elijah-knupps-status-report-for-april-20th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Knupp\u2019s status report for April 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This week&#8217;s accomplishments<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attended mandatory labs<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>filled out reports that analyzed the final presentations from other groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gathered data regarding the performance of our subsystems. Specifically:\n<ul>\n<li>mapping the MOSFET gate voltages to the corresponding flow rate<\/li>\n<li>the performance of our PID loop that controls the heating element<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once again, this week was\u00a0<em>filled\u00a0<\/em>with troubleshooting. There was a push to integrate everything together, which resulted in many bugs. There was a point in which all subcomponents worked correctly with each other. However, for whatever reason, the pump stopped working with the software script.\u00a0<em>Many<\/em> hours were poured into trying to figure exactly why this happened, but no definitive result has been reached. Troubleshooting will continue this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Next weeks plan<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete the integration of the subsystems.\n<ul>\n<li>This includes troubleshooting the pump bug described above. As mentioned above, we were able to get the pump (and all of the other subsystems) to work together for a full pour-over cycle. This week, we need to isolate this bug and fix it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fine-tune the system. If needed, need to:\n<ul>\n<li>tune the pour-rate of the pump (if flow rates are changed after the pump fix)<\/li>\n<li>ensure the total amount of water pour is accurate (up to 300mL)<\/li>\n<li>ensure the nozzle&#8217;s movements are completely contained within its expected range (to ensure no splashing\/spilling water)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make the poster for the project<\/li>\n<li>Begin writing the final paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Status Report: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On schedule<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s accomplishments Attended mandatory labs filled out reports that analyzed the final presentations from other groups Gathered data regarding the performance of our subsystems. Specifically: mapping the MOSFET gate voltages to the corresponding flow rate the performance of our PID loop that controls the heating element Once again, this week was\u00a0filled\u00a0with troubleshooting. There was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/2024\/04\/28\/elijah-knupps-status-report-for-april-20th-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elijah Knupp\u2019s status report for April 27th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}