Week 12 & 13

In the past 2 week, I have been doing meeting with my team to discuss and work on the control system. The wireless modules have come in and we have been trying to figure out how to implement it into our system. In order to have a controller and a receiver system, we decided to have two micro controller for our system. The controller will have one micro-controller with the joystick to process the input signal and send it to the receiver unit. The receiver unit will have a micro controller with motor, and motor driver to receive input from the controller and execute it to spin the motor. We are trying to understand how the library work and integrate the wireless modules to our system. And here is a wireless module that we use for our system.

Week 10 &11 Presentation 2

Since my group didn't present last week, today was our turn to present our progress to other sub teams. In the presentation, we have talked about our goal of Spartan Superway project as a whole. We listed out of semester end goals and also our progress on our control system. We have made a working prototype but we are still waiting for more parts to come in. After the presentation, we continue to work on our prototype and start to speed things up since there is only one month left before semester ends. We have to finalize our design and start to do documentation for our project. Besides the regular class meeting on Wednesday, our full scale team decided to meet up on Friday to discuss and cooperate on the design. I am looking forward to the meeting, so we can give each other feedback and advices.

Week 9 Presentation 2

Today was the date for presentation 2. Because we presented as the first group in presentation 1, we were scheduled to be the second group for presentation. Although we are presenting next week, we have already finished our presentation slides. Today, I sit in and listened to other group presentations. 1/12 scales sub-team presented their progress on their project. They have finalized their ideas and in the middle of the rapid prototyping as we do. I really like the 1/12 control team. They utilized the RFID tag to track the location of the bogie and send it to users device. It was a good idea which could apply to our control system.