Week 5: DC Power Supply Tho

This has been a very productive week for us. We have:

• gotten the camera to work for basic object tracking

• equipped the motor driver with the motor

• built a lot of our frame

• and got most of our fundamental parts

Sailesh

Got camera to operate

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=378911.0

Currently able to detect a color (we can change it to brown label)

Daniel, Sailesh, Han, Jeremias (All)

Built Chassis

2 8x8x.25 pieces of wood were screwed together with 2 8x1x3 as our frame

• the 8x8 will be the main platform

• 2 were screwed together so it could handle the payload and torque (extra stability)

• 3 inches would give us enough volume to put the wires and MCU

• 1 inch would be thick enough to have the screws and strong enough for our needs

Daniel, Sailesh, Jeremias

Got motors to go forward and backward

1 1 : ???

1 0 : forward

0 1 : reverse

0 0 : stop

This involved the H-bridge, ellegoo, and a motor.

Parts Update

Motor Holders

​Wheels

We have also gotten the batteries and bolts necessary to construct the frame with the wheels to build the chassis.

Future Work

• Fully build frame for chassis

• Screw in other deck

• motor and axle placement

• Drive the motors with the ellegoo

• Make the scooper work

• decide on one of three implementations

• scooper rests on top (needs handle, needs motor)

• scooper rotates slightly hinged off top (no handle, needs motor)

• scooper rests in front of frame (no handle, no motor)

TIL We can use DC Power Supply to supply DC power.