Wooden bottle rotation stepper mount finished. Holes drilled for 4 rail system. The mechanism slides smoothly. -Spencer Monday, April 23, 2018
Ran 4 tests of filling the bottle. It was determined to stop filling when the output voltage from the FSR - 10k resistor divider is 1.2 V. -Spencer, Rohit
Continued to work on LCD code. Determined that stripping out fontconvert may solve problems and we would be able to use the arduino library. -Evan
Wednesday, April 25, 2018Mounted one of the drink pumps and bottle rotation and horiz steppers. -Spencer, Rohit
Finger-turned horizontal bottle stepper. Operation was smooth in one direction, but going the other way, the slider would stick. Decided to put bearings in both sides of the holes to better distribute the weight. Overall friction increased, but the slider would no longer stick. Ran the horizontal bottle stepper using stepper control program. The belt slips some going in one direction. See video for details. This should no longer be a problem after we tighten the belt. -Spencer, Evan