This week, my team and I worked on some ideas for the switching of the bogie. For example, we figured out where we would place magnets on the track in order to have the bogie switch when and where we wanted it to. In addition, we decided that the reed sensor on the left side of the bogie would be used for switching every time it passed by a magnet. Therefore, we decided to use the reed sensor on the right side of the bogie for switching during pathing. For example, the reed sensor on the right side would pass by a magnet, but would run through a code in order to decide whether or not it will switch tracks.
In addition, the positioning team notified us that the sensor they used only gave a digital output of 0 or 1 so it could not be used for positioning of the bogie. Therefore, the positioning team is currently working on finding a different sensor that could be used.
My team and I are also working on our presentations for next week so I hope that we begin to make some progress in our design and coding within the next week.
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