This week, I mainly finish grunt works and setup circuit and prep for smooth gantry integration. I laser cut go pieces in bulk and assembled them together with Sizhe. I also setup a transparent full size gomoku board for clearer movement and integration testing. I also helped with hall effect sensor detection and multiplexer circuit.
Design wise, I scrapped the idea of using compression spring in the go piece magazine, since after mass producing the go pieces, I found out that inserting over 20 pieces into the spring loaded magazine chamber requires too much force. Meaning, for integration, the feeding system would be upright using gravity instead of horizontal using compression spring. Feeding movement involving stepper motor is unchanged. Risk wise, this is a simple change and mainly only impacted appearance and not functionality.
Schedule wise, I am still behind due to not being able to integrate with gantry. However, I finished all possible prep work, testing circuity and code to help expediting once we can integrate with gantry next week.