This week I worked primarily on getting the final project ready for final documentation. In the next couple of days, we have many deadlines coming up, so I’ve been preparing the final deliverables. I’ve begun brainstorming video ideas, started trying out different poster layouts, and started working on the final presentation slides.
We don’t have any significant setbacks this week. Since our interim demo, things have been going smoothly for the most part. We’ve had some difficulties here and there getting the belt to tension, so we reprinted some parts and readjusted the clamp which has so far solved the slipping issue.
We are currently on schedule and are on pace to complete the project by our final demo.
One of the skills I learned while working on this project is how to read schematics and pcb boards. While working on the project, a couple weeks back, we had an issue with reading from our hall-effect sensor on the adafruit hub adapter. In order to find the root cause, I needed to review the schematics for the adafruit hub adapter and look at the data sheets for each of the components before finally diagnosing that the hub adapter only allowed for one-way communication of data from the pi to the panels, and not from the panels back to the pi. Without learning to read the schematics and datasheets of various components, I’m not sure we would have figured out this bug.