Our team created our proposal slide deck and presented it. This helped us flesh out more details of our project and how all of our parts will interact as a system. We considered how user-friendly we wanted the process to be, the maximum amount of time it should take to scan and generate a 3D model, and the scope of what objects would be scannable. We realized some limitations that real world conditions would present to us. We will have to test how much noise will occur from outside lighting and other real conditions with the flatbed. We will also consider different options for our mechanical arm based on how either rotating with a felt tip on a glass surface or electro-adhesion would work with different materials and geometries. Additionally, we need to see if it’d be necessary to place anything under the scanned object, such as film, to prevent scratching or if it would help/hinder rotation of the object.
Next week we plan on looking through the inventory list for components of our manipulator, and placing orders for a flatbed scanner and potentially any manipulator parts that we can’t find in the inventory.