This week has been hectic due many time conflicts, with it following right after spring break, however a new personal schedule has been made to tackle all objectives before heading into our first demo. We were told that we needed to get our individual portions working, and therefore so far there is a working servo code, as attached below. I also worked on organizing and helping to order the main hardware parts which we will need for testing later. I will be continuing to work out the bugs as well as make a final decision on the design between the two microcontrollers: originally, our plan was to make it only have the main ESP32 handle all hardware signals, with just counter calculation being done in the other ESP32. If we run into issues regarding the complexity of the packets being sent due to ESP-NOW in the near future, this split will be undone and the potentiometer reading will be directly inputted into this RX ESP32. I’m moving forward into researching whether stepper motors can be addressed in the same way and going to move into individual testing. Overall hardware design is, however, similar to last week’s photo/design.
I am currently a bit behind as I don’t have the parts that we need to build the actual prototype yet and working with, as noted last week, a significantly weaker servo motor and potentiometer/ESP32s from either loans or personal collection. However, I will be catching up through lab work in the upcoming days.
I already am researching about the stepper motors, and starting on the code for it, but hope finalize coding and to be able to start testing with our ordered parts when they arrive. By the end of next week, I should have a completed hardware prototype in one way or another with the corresponding code.
