Howard Ma’s Weekly Status Report for 3/15/2025

Personal Accomplishments

  • Debugged and fixed circuitry for the solenoid valve and motor driver, ensuring consistent activation and response time.
  • Refined robotic arm control, enabling it to execute a sequence of pose-changing commands to grab and place garnishes.
    • Successfully tested the arm by picking up a chocolate ball as a placeholder garnish.
    • Designed the system to be adjustable for different garnish types, allowing flexibility for various drinks.
    • The working sample can be viewed here: Link
  • Worked on the 3D printable designs for the Stirrer:

Next Week Deliverables

  • Complete the stirring system design and circuitry, ensuring smooth integration with the drink mixing process.
  • Work on system-wide debugging and integration, ensuring all hardware and software components communicate effectively.
  • Coordinated with teammates on system-wide integration, preparing all working individual components for integration.

Status Report: On Schedule

Arda Akinci’s Weekly Status Report for 3/15/2025

    • Designed and built the full circle for the garnish rotational motor to take place
    • Wrote out the Arduino code to operate this rotational motor
    • Integrated the Arduino code with Python so that whenever we are ready to fully integrate this into the website, it will rather seamless.
      • Here is a video of the garnish wheel motor rotating based on various input angles specified by Python. Here for testing purposes I just inputed various angles on the terminal but for the actual WebApp, the particular angle will be send based on the drink selection by the user.  You can also see that it will always take the shortest path given the specific angle
        Video Link
    •  Also, started building the drink pouring structure that will hold the drinks up.

Next Week Deliverables

  • Integrate the working garnish wheel selection with Rohan’s Solenoidal valve and Howard’s Robotic Arm
  • Build the structure that will hold all of the drinks up in the Woodshop

Status Report: On Schedule

Rohan Shenoy’s Weekly Status Report for 3/8/25

Personal Accomplishments

  • Reviewed and edited the Design Document with the appropriate schematics of valve attachement and connection to arduino
  • Designed the circuitry for the connection between the Arduino and the solenoid valves
  • Built the initial setup of tubing connection to appropriate solenoid valves and began planning out types of drinks and bottle sizes

Next Week Deliverables

  • Gather all of the parts needed for the circuit (including potentiometer, capacitors, motor driver) and begin testing different values for them respectively
  • Buy appropriate drink containers and attach tubing to them
  • Begin testing electronic valve openings and liquid control flow for different values

Status Report: On Schedule

Howard Ma’s Weekly Status Report for 3/8/25

Personal Accomplishments

  • Completed construction of robotic arm and experimented with its functionality to be independently controlled
  • Helped go over the design report document submission
  • Helped with verifying circuit designs of the components
  • Begin writing Arduino control code for 12V valve control

Next Week Deliverables

  • Construct stirring mechanism
  • Finish and test control code for the valves and robotic arm to begin testing individual parts and prepare for system integration.

Status Report: On Schedule