This week I made a lot of progress in terms of manufacturing and hardware testing. As mentioned last week this week I really needed to get the test bench fully 3d printed and assembled so that it was ready 
as soon as possible for hardware testing and also for demonstration for the interim demo. Manufacturing the test bench required a lot of 3D printing as well as waiting for some screw hardware to come in along with heat set inserts. Luckily all the parts fit together on the first try so no extra printing was needed. By the time of this post there still needs to be some work in terms of hardware testing/integration including with the stepper motors and the 9-DoF sensor but I plan to finish that with my group by tomorrow.
So far we remain on schedule with our goals and the last major steps that I have will be doing the control systems for the motor, tuning the 9-Dof sensor, and completing the integration with the actual umbrella. Next week I plan to finish any CAD design related to the physical design and have all necessary parts ordered by the start of the week. While I wait for those parts to come in I will continue to work on my aspects of hardware integration/testing.