This past week, I sent in our final parts requests for motor mounts (for the two motors we have been using for the roller and conveyor belt) and power banks (as previously we noticed that our current power bank can not simultaneously supply power to the Jetson Nano Orin and Read more…
This week, our revised motors, for both the wheels and conveyor belt & roller, came in. Ella and I tested the motors and found that these work much better – we were able to get the robot moving and have the conveyor belt & roller move with the motors. Initially Read more…
This past week, we presented our project during the interim demo. After receiving feedback, we redefined our gantt chart and goals moving forward. A lot of my work this week was based on the feedback from demo and fixing up some of the issues we ran into while running the Read more…
This past week, I spent a significant amount of time finishing up the build for the robot, integrating electronic components, and testing the sensors and motors on the side. Primarily in preparation for interim demo, I placed a large focus on completing the construction for the robot (in terms of Read more…
This past week, I worked on finishing up the build for the robot and ordering parts for the inner mechanisms (conveyor belt and roller). I have been working on build with Ella and we met up multiple times over the week to work on build as well as discuss details Read more…
This past week, I placed a significant focus on the construction of the robot. We had most of the materials (extrusions & acrylic boards) by the beginning of the week; however, we had to order new connectors which took a bit longer to come in. Regardless, we finished constructing the Read more…
Last week, I primarily worked on finalizing the design sketch, sourcing materials, defining connections for the raspberry pi, researching ROS, and the design review report. Although we discussed the design sketch and finalized the dimensions the previous week during the design review, a lot more thought was needed in terms Read more…
This past week, I have been working on setting up ROS on the Raspberry PI. I have also been working on learning ROS and defining motion requirements for the robot. This Monday, I delivered our team’s design review presentation. Overall, I was able to present the major design decisions we Read more…
This past week, I spent a great deal of time working on the design for the robot. I researched existing trash collecting robots (on land/ water) and other mechanisms that collect objects (ex. vacuum cleaners, applications in farming, cleaning, toy-collecting etc.). Last week, we partly decided on the roller mechanism; Read more…
This week, I spent time researching components and defining design constraints for our design. In continuation of the use case requirements we defined in the proposal last week, I came up with several new design requirements that helped aid in constraining and defining the product in greater detail and finalized Read more…