Spring 2017 Week 9

This week is spring break so my team and I decided to meet up our own accord so that we could make more progress on the project, if not finish it. So far, we have met this past Sunday in order to see if we could test anything on the track. Unfortunately, the track improvement team had disassembled the track in order to make some fixes. As a result, my team was not able to get much done as our next steps are testing, but we are unable to test so long as the track is not ready. We plan to meet up on Friday and Saturday and the track should be ready by then so hopefully my team and I will be able to finally have something running on the track for testing.

Spring 2017 Week 8

This week, my team and I realized how many setbacks we actually have regarding the project. We had went to the warehouse in an attempt to get one pod car running on the track, but we were unable to do so and left with more issues. Therefore, I am not confident that there will be 5-6 pod cars running on the track at the same time because of all these issues we have.

What will most likely happen is that the team will be spending a lot of time over spring break trying to fix all the small issues and then actually testing the pod car on the track. Hopefully, we will have at least one pod car running on the track to display the concept of the Spartan Superway. In addition, Luis and I could also try to hard code 5 other pod cars to loop between a couple stations over and over so that the project does not look too bare. Other than testing and troubleshooting, there is not much else to do this week.

Spring 2017 Week 7

This week was focused on giving our first presentation and then attempting to finish up getting the rotary encoders to work. The presentation went well in my opinion and can found in my group's blog. Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out how to get the rotary encoders to work because the the soldering on the motor and encoder that I had broke off. Therefore, I had to wait until Wednesday in order to receive a functioning one from Chris. In addition, Luis was unable to figure out how to get the rotary encoders to work on his end. Therefore, we are behind schedule now. However, if it comes down to it, Luis and I will definitely ask Professor Furman for some assistance. Hopefully, Luis and I will be able to figure it out by the end of this week because we must begin testing very soon.

Spring 2017 Week 6

This week, I was unable to make any significant progress due to presentations. However, I did try to get integration of the code, but Luis and I are now trying to get the rotary encoders to work. Once we are able to get those to work, which I hope to finish by the end of tbis week, I could start integrating all the code together along with pathing. Fortunately, the software app team was able to get XBees working on their end of the part so that's less work for ny team.

Hopefully, by the end of presentations, I could start working on the encoders and testing them so that the team can progress onto the next stage.