Emanuel’s Status Report for 2/17

This Week’s Updates:

• Mandatory Lab (4 hr.)
  • Met with TA and Professor to discuss feedback from presentation 
  • Established a new definition for our MVP
• Team Meetings (4 hr.)
  • Completed the design for our carrier, adding finishing touches to track
  • Made decisions to change certain components 
    • Magnetometer instead of RFID
    • Ultrasonic Sensor instead of LiDAR Sensor
    • H-Bridge instead of Digital Potentiometer
  • Worked with team members on the Design slides for presentation
• Design Research (4 hr.)
  • Read data sheets provided with new components about any recommendations
    • Voltage and Current
    • Potential safety components, e.g. Flyback Diodes
  • Assisted in researching the new components
    • Magnetometer
    • H-Bridge Chip
    • Ultrasonic Sensor

Schedule:

As of now we are behind schedule because of the drastic changes that we had to make to our project after talking to the TA and Professor. We had to make the decisions of changing multiple components to our designs such as changing from digital potentiometer to an H-Bridge, from LiDAR to Ultrasonic Sensor, and from RFID system to Magnetometer. With such changes to our design, we had to invest a lot of time into researching these components, as well as creating new ways to smoothly insert these newer components to the ones we are deciding to continue with. We wanted to finish all the 3D printing for the track and the carrier but we were not able to since we haven’t bought any filament for the 3D printer. 

Next Week’s Updates:

• Have a finished and 3D printed carrier and track, at least so we can get to MVP territory 
• Buy all the components we would need in order to work on MVP
• Have circuits ready to implement the power system