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Arda Akinci’s Weekly Status Report for 2/22/25

Personal Accomplishments

  • Established a connection between the Arduino and a python file, laying the groundwork for the Django WebApp to be able to communicate with it.
  • Created the output terminal so that the Python file could print the output of the Arduino commands to make debugging easier.
  • Completed the Abstract, Introduction, Use-Case Requirements section of the design review.

Next Week Deliverables

  • Fully completed design review
  • Circuitry of our project mapped out

Status Report: On Schedule

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Arda Akinci’s Weekly Status Report for 2/15/25

Personal Accomplishments

  • Designed the new plan for how our plan is going to work. The following is a screenshot of our updated plan, where we are now using the valves for the drink dispensing rather than the wheel 
  • Took the lead in creating the presentation for the design review that we are going to showcase next week
  • Helped research the parts needed to complete the deliverables and placed orders for them. The following is a list of the items that we bought for our project.

Next Week Deliverables

  • Have a communication interface between the Django Web Application and the Arduino once it arrives
  • Have the circuit designed with the solenoidal valves
  • Connect the valves to the Arduino and get some basic dispensing operation going

Status Report: On Schedule

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Team Status Report for 2/8/25

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. 

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Arda Akinci’s Status Report for 2/8/25

Personal Accomplishments

  • Finalized the slide deck for the proposal presentation
  • Created the initial Gantt chart for the project
  • Starting exploring the technologies needed for the project that we will use for the functionality
    • ex.) Arduino, Solenoidal Valves in order to suck out the drinks rather than using the wheel for that
  • Helped re-design the new structure of the project (moving away from the wheel for the drinks towards solenoidal valves that will be connected to the Arduino)
  • Initialized the Django repo: Github

Next Week Deliverables

  • The full list of items that we will be buying for each component of the system
  • The full design diagram of the project sketched out

Status Report: On Schedule