Week 5: Rapid Prototyping

As we finished our first presentation last week, we have gotten an idea from Dr. Furman that we should add a manual control to the system such as a joystick control and a kill switch. We ordered some parts and started the rapid prototyping. We got an Arduino Mega from the Arduino website, a motor and a L298n motor driver from our Spartan superway garage. At first, we wired up the Arduino and tried to control rotating speed of the motor. We successfully controlled the rotating speed of the motor as we entered parameters on Arduino. Since we just ordered the joystick, we are planning to map parameters between the motor and the joystick so we can control the speed of the motor according to the movement on the joystick. Here is the setup we have so far.

 

Week 4: Presentation #1

In this week's meeting, the half scale and full scale team were to present today. Our team had the opportunity to present our new ideas that we plan on implementing onto the existing Full Scale to make it more efficient. We explained to the rest of the team and Dr. Furman, Eric and Ron about how we plan to integrate an wireless kill switch device, sonar device and an motor with an encoder. Additionally we explained possible challenges that we plan to overcome as well as how we plan to start our rapid prototyping for the future. Furthermore, we discussed on what each team member's responsibility would be as well as what we would be doing every week through our gantt chart. Presented below is our presentation.