Maddie’s Status Reports

Over the last two weeks, most of my time went towards working on the design report, as well as continuing to work on the image stitching algorithm. Because of some travel hiccups, I did not get everything that I planned in my last status report …

The start of my week was focused on preparing to present our design review, which happened Monday and (I think) went well! Since then I have been pretty sick, but was able to – thanks to a cocktail of basically every over-the-counter cold medicine known …

This week, most of my time was spent creating and preparing to present our design slidedeck. Abie and Emma have been at a swim meet since Tuesday, so I met with Prof Kim on Wednesday and together we refined some details of our design, specifically …

This week, most of my capstone project time was spent designing the mechanism for raising and lowering the underwater component from the boat base. Currently, I’m leaning towards using a stepper motor-driven spool. The mechanism will also have a level wind mechanism, which will make …