Ted’s Status Report for 03/28/2026

This week I focused on getting the rail system up and running for testing and coordination with our other subsystems. We met with Dr. Dueck and we went over various parts of our design, such as rail length and integration with the audio system to meet requirements for working with the opera students. She introduced us to Dr. Dannenberg, who’s given us a lot of helpful input on how the MIDI audio input interaction might work and what we might need to do.I finished using Solidworks to design all the parts needed, cut them all out at TechSpark, and have been working on assembling the rail system. I’ve had to redesign various parts of the rail such as the motor pulley system as the original design isn’t within tolerances for our belts and camera mount assembly. I’m currently working on getting the VESC and RPi set up and communicating. By next week, I hope to get motor control code working so we can begin testing with our different subsystems together. Our design is still on schedule, and I’m hoping to get the motor code working in tandem with our UWB sensor code on the central processing RPi so we can determine if it will bottleneck processing or not. I also helped Ahmad with testing the UWB tracking system. We are currently still on schedule, and hope to have a basic full implementation consisting of audio, rail, and UWB tracking soon.