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Week 22: Nov 14th - 20th
Figure 1: General Test of Movements Transmitting and Receiving The transmitting and receiving of this project are based on the...
Group Work
Nov 20, 20226 min read
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Week 21: Nov 7th - 13th
This week Jacob worked on troubleshooting the up/down arm not being able to lift the microphone. The voltage of the voltage regulator was...
jhotlen0
Nov 14, 20221 min read
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Week 21: Nov 7th - Nov 13th
Resolving GUI Crashing: Last week while testing the RCMS we ran into a constant issue where the GUI would crash after a certain number of...
Neil Bishop
Nov 13, 20222 min read
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Week 20: Nov 1st - Nov 7th
When connecting Bluetooth devices, the devices must first be paired with each other then a connection must be established in order to...
Neil Bishop
Nov 6, 20221 min read
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Week 20: Nov 1st -7th
This week, Jacob attached the microphone to the project and secured all motors for final positions. While testing the arm for with the...
jhotlen0
Nov 6, 20221 min read
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Week 19: Oct 25th - 31st
This week Jacob finished assembling the chassis and wiring all of the connections. Preliminary testing was completed using the up/down...
jhotlen0
Oct 30, 20221 min read
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Week 18: Oct 17th - Oct 24th
This week’s goals were to test the servos with the wireless transmitter, attach the battery housing to the chassis, and to test the...
Group Work
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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Week 18: Oct 17th - 24th
This week’s goal was to combine the previous week’s work with the position graphics with the GUI. This was done by copying over the code,...
Neil Bishop
Oct 22, 20221 min read
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Week 17: Oct 11th - 17th
Building Graphics for Arm Positions: After researching the best way to implement graphics for the arm positions, I decided to go with...
Neil Bishop
Oct 16, 20221 min read
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Week 17: Oct 11th - 17th
This week Jacob printed the remaining parts of the chassis including the battery holder and the electronics compartment. These two parts...
jhotlen0
Oct 16, 20221 min read
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Week 16: Oct 4th - Oct 10th
This week, Jacob assembled the main components of the project together. These components being the chassis, rotation motor, lazy Susan,...
jhotlen0
Oct 10, 20221 min read
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Week 16: Oct 3rd - Oct 9th
This week's goals were to resolve a conflict with the servo motors, test the code with the hobby servos, and also update the GUI to be...
Neil Bishop
Oct 9, 20222 min read
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Weeks 14-15: Sept 20th - Oct 3rd
During the past two weeks, Jacob began printing the remaining parts required to assemble the project. This includes the tilt motor mount...
jhotlen0
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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Weeks 14-15: Sept 20 - Oct 3
In the past two weeks, Neil and Jacob worked on finding a solution to holding the horizontal arm in place without any power applied to...
Group Work
Oct 2, 20222 min read
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Week 13: Sept 12th - Sept 18th
This week, Jacob began drawing and printing the remaining 3-D printed parts need to assemble the project. The CAD renderings of these...
jhotlen0
Sep 18, 20221 min read
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Week 13 (Design Phase): (9/12 - 9/18)
This week our group work consisted of setting up the Arduino with a test program given to us to check if the chassis motors are working...
Group Work
Sep 18, 20221 min read
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Week 13 (Design Phase): (9/12 - 9/18)
After Jacob and I tested the motors with the motor driver (L298N), I began programming the chassis with a test program to get a baseline...
Neil Bishop
Sep 18, 20223 min read
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Week 11-12: Aug 29th - Sept 11
This week, Jacob began printing the 3-D parts required for the assembly of the mechanical parts of the project and began to assemble the...
jhotlen0
Sep 11, 20222 min read
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Weeks 10-12 (Design Phase): (8/22 - 9/11)
GUI Functionality: The GUI in this project is used to control the mic stand remotely by sending data to the Arduino through Bluetooth...
Neil Bishop
Sep 11, 20228 min read
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Week 10: Aug 22nd-28th
The week of Aug 22nd through the 28th, Jacob began creating CAD renderings of the parts need to assemble the mechanical parts of the...
jhotlen0
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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