{"id":139,"date":"2024-03-16T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/?p=139"},"modified":"2024-03-16T20:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T01:54:43","slug":"ryans-status-report-for-3-16-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/2024\/03\/16\/ryans-status-report-for-3-16-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan&#8217;s Status Report for 3\/16\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS WEEK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week on the project, Doreen and I finalized a big part of the hardware components and conducted some continued testing on some electronic components.<\/li>\n<li>First of all, I cleaned up the wood for the item stand with wood putty and sanding. Then we spray painted and sealed the wood. Next, we assembled the bottom of the item stand.<\/li>\n<li>Next, I tested the electrical components, spending several hours troubleshooting the stepper motor (it kept vibrating instead of rotating), and eventually accidentally lighting a motor driver a friend gave me on fire. I ordered a different stepper motor driver that was recommended online.<\/li>\n<li>I also tested connecting all 6 load cells concurrently, and the test was a success. I then taped up the electrical connections and connected wires to the slip ring, which is inserted into the 6 sided top rack.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, I am still on schedule, as this week and next I am supposed to attach electronics to the item stand.<\/li>\n<li>The progress made can be seen in the team status report!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NEXT WEEK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Next week, I hope to fix the issues with the stepper motor with the new motor driver that will be delivered. Then, I want to test out the wireless transceiver and begin writing item stand controller code so that the hardware component of this project can wrap up.<br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS WEEK This week on the project, Doreen and I finalized a big part of the hardware components and conducted some continued testing on some electronic components. First of all, I cleaned up the wood for the item stand with wood putty and sanding. Then we spray painted and sealed the wood. Next, we assembled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/2024\/03\/16\/ryans-status-report-for-3-16-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ryan&#8217;s Status Report for 3\/16\/24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teame7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}