- This week, I dove deep into the hardware behind our project. Some of our components, such as the load cell and ADC were delivered, so soldiered come components together I connected them to an Arduino. Doreen and I wrote a simple program to read the load cell when bending it.
- Secondly, I spent 10+ hours in the TechSpark wood shop, cutting shapes out of plywood (too many circles sadly) and manually and gluing layers together.
- Currently, I am ahead of schedule with building a physical rack, with the previous task of creating and ordering parts taking way shorter than needed. We did only order the parts that were immediately needed so that task was a bit more distributed across the entire project than what was originally planned.
- Next week, I hope to finish building the hardware rack, source some mechanical parts such as gears, and test and install all electronics.
Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2024 | Doreen Valmyr, Ryan Lin, Surafel Tsadik