The biggest risk we face as we approach the first integration of all subsystems is the reproducibility of the shots. As also mentioned during design presentation and during our meeting with professor this week, if there are not enough spin when the pingpong ball travels, it can essentially turn into a knuckle ball pitch, leading to unpredictable trajectory. While we don’t think this will be a huge issue as the travel time is short and there should be some spinning of the ball should already happen as it shoots out, we acknowledge that we don’t know for sure until we test it out. We aim to finish the first full integration soon so that we can adjust our design if it doesn’t pass our verification plans.
We don’t have any major design changes this week.
We don’t have any schedule changes this week as we had slack time integrated into our original Gantt chart.
