Team C5: Bar Belt

Personal Accomplishments

• Helped finish and prepare the slides for this past weeks proposal presentations
• Planned out and designed the block diagram regarding the various software and hardware components
• Starting researching appropriate size tubes and solenoid valves for appropriate fluid flow rate
• Researched programming components of arduino and how to map it to django backend
• Aided in the new design of our project, using electronic tubing and leaving the wheel for toppings

Next Week Deliverables

• Plan out all the items we need to buy for our project
• Have a detailed design outline in terms of components and functionality
• Began experimenting and building the electronic pipes with solenoid valves

Status Report: On Schedule

 

This week, our team presented our proposal slides to peers and mentors, receiving valuable feedback that we’ll use to enhance future presentations. In the coming days, we’ll focus on researching the necessary components and start to order them.

At the beginning of the week, we established that we wanted to use a wheel to spin the drinks around to the eventual “dispense zone.” However, after talking with peers and advisors, we decided to refine our project design. Instead, we are going to use solenoidal valves that will be attached from the drinks and be directed towards a funnel. We will then use a separate wheel for the garnish. We believe that this approach will make the overall latency of the system to go down and remove a bottleneck of moving the drink to the right location. Since this is early in the design face, this will not cause any cost in time or money. We will just have to focus our research of parts more towards the solenoidal pipes and valves.

We established the github repo that will be used for the Django WebApp: github. We also ordered the Arduino Uno so that we can begin to use it as soon as possible and limit timing waiting once our design is done.

This upcoming week we want to get our full project design diagram done, along with the list of parts that we would like to order.

 

Here is the current Gantt chart that we established for our project proposal presentation. We are currently on schedule.