This Week’s Updates:
- Mandatory Lab (4 hr.)
- Sat and gave feedback to other team’s design presentation
- Had to prepare and give our team presentation for our team design
- Team Meetings (6 hr.)
- Created a cardboard prototype
- Track and test levitation and stability
- Implemented magnets with the cardboard prototype
- Track and test the strength of magnets
- Adjusted CAD design metrics based on results from cardboard prototype
- Created a cardboard prototype
- Design Research and Self-Time (2 hr.)
- Looked into alternative ways to power the nano Arduino
- Nano needs wireless power since it is moving on the track
- Soldered battery with wires to the nano
- Tested for any heating, current/voltage loss, whether the component works
- Researched ways to decrease the amount of voltage loss when connected to the nano
- Alternative batteries (Lithium batteries)
- Implement a switch in between the nano and the battery (most likely solution to go with)
- Looked into alternative ways to power the nano Arduino
Schedule:
As of now, we are behind schedule. We would have liked to have our track and carrier fully printed out by now, but due to our order request being rejected, we had to create an alternative cardboard prototype for testing. Though we are behind schedule, the cardboard prototype really helped us add and finalize certain details and components for the track and carrier.
Next Week’s Schedule:
- Fully printed out carrier and track
- Whole H-Bridge circuitry done (at least one coil)