This week, I tested the IR beam sensors and the new servo. I was able to get a visual of the servo’s strength with the 3d printed magnet, and it worked well and was able to it it with the expected torque and speed calcualted in my design. In addition to this, I integrated the systems together and was able to get a mini state machine working with one sensor and the servo. With this, I am able to send a serial input into the GPIO pin of the microcontroller to swing the bat, have a detection for the IR beam, and switch states to either hit detected or miss.
I am on schedule for this week, and want to scale to at least two sensors for the demo next week. Additionally, I want to get a prototype for the recieving system up with physical cups and also coordinate with Bing on the Bluetooth aspect. I would also like to do more stress testing on the sensors with different lighting conditions.