Week 4

After the lighting presentation, We have started to design and calculations for our project. Since we are the control team of the full scale, we don't have the money to buy all the full scale parts for the testing. Our team decided to do rapid prototyping to demonstrate the control of the podcar. We are planning to use Arduino as as the micro-controller for the control system. We are going use a small motor and some sensors to simulate the entire full scale control system. For calculation, our team need to calculate the required output wattage for picking a suitable motor for our project. We also ordered the parts for our rapid prototyping, so we can start working next week. We also have to work on our first presentation where we present our approach and ideas for the project.