Week of Apr 14 – Apr 20

Administrivia

• Made preparations for the in lab demo on Monday.

Project

I did a lot this past week in order to catch up fro the week I did not too much before (build week for booth). I did the following tasks this week:

• Updated design and laser cut pieces for third car
• Put together most of third car (still waiting on our last Raspberry Pi 3 B+ to come in)
• Soldered the IR receiver circuit so it is now mountable to the car.
• Cleaned up the IR transmitter circuit so that it too is now mountable to the car.
• Improved the performance of the IR system with addition of a current mirror (range is now about 25 ft).
• Solder crimping and connecting wires for connect the motors on car 2 to it’s RPI.

Scheduling

I will be putting in the same amount of hours this week to prepare for the final demo in May.

New Schedule
Dates	Task
Feb 4 – Feb 6	Come up with a first draft of the bill of materials for three cars
Feb 6 – Feb 8	Started design of RFID and IR circuits
Feb 8 – Feb 15	Started design the physical layout of a car
Feb 15 – Feb 22	Finish first draft of circuit designs
Feb 22 – Feb 25	Design the PCB that goes in the car
Feb 25 – Feb 28	Find appropriate battery and power system parts
Feb 28 – Mar 3	Work on preparing for the design review presentation and report
Mar 3 – Mar 9	Finish first draft of 3D model for the car
Mar 17 – Mar 19	Assemble frame.
Mar 19 – Mar 25	Build IR circuits, get started on RFID and Xbox controller and assemble 2 cars.
Mar 25 – Mar 31	Finish the IR circuits so that they are mountable and work on Xbox controller inputs. Also, prepare for midpoint demo.
Mar 31 – Apr 4	Optimize the RFID scanner, make third car.
Apr 4 – Apr 9	Optimize the RFID scanner, make third car.

Deliverables for Next Week:

1. Solder all the IR receiver plates.
2. Solder CB for IR receivers for cars 2 and 3.
3. Fix squeaky wheel issue on car 2.
4. Laser cut another Camera Mount 2.0, as we saw that this newer works better than the previous version.
5. Make 2 more IR tx circuits on protoboards for cars 2 and 3.
6. Design and cut mount for RFID.
7. Make the gates.
8. Cut bumpers out of sponge for the three cars.