This week I worked with my teammates on the design presentation and we made some changes to the design. The hardware part will mostly remain the same, so I continued with my research on the hardware components I will be working on. We finalized which model we wanted to use, and placed the orders for the ultrasonic distance sensor and the Arducam camera.
I also found a software called Tinkercad that allows you to simulate circuits. I saw that it includes the exact ultrasonic sensor that I wanted to use, and it allows you to write code. I played around with it a little and hopefully this will help me test and verify that it works before I start working with the actual components. Tinkercad lets me do something like this:
I am a little bit behind schedule, due to many overlapping deadlines and upcoming exams. I have done research on how the components work and what pieces of code I would have to write, but I don’t have any solid components yet. In the next week, since I expect to have a bit more time, I hope have a more solid design of the hardware and start setting them up once the orders arrive.