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Tuesday, May 29
LED and Peripheral Completion, Checkoff
Added LED strips to mouth and base
Added timing code for LED flashing and peripheral mouth chomp
Tested interoperability with various teams
Checked off
Final Integration
All components mounted and finalized in FARMER and DOG
Sunday, May 28
Shark Assembly
Mounted tail and shark costume
Conducted several test runs
Decided to add LEDs
FARMER Assembly
Began stuffing and mounting components into inner tube
Friday, May 26 - Saturday, May 28
System Testing and Shark layout
Confirmed interoperability with multiple teams DOGs/FARMERs
Began covering DOG with shark costume
Implemented peripheral/brake functions
Fabricated shark mouth assembly and painted mouth and thrust fan frame
FARMER Developments
Began fabricating components for mounting and integration
Constructed the straps and the system to hold them in place on the inner tube
Fabricated conch mount
Used plastic tubing for wiring harness
Successfully controlled hovercraft using only FARMER module
Thursday, May 25
DOG Revisions
Re-made connector for TREAT/ lift fan power control board
Installed a switch bay for power control
Completed thrust fan frame and mouth design, laser cut out of duron, assembled, and tested
FARMER electronics
Mounted electronics in module
All FARMER electronics soldered and finalized
Wednesday, May 24
Weebly problems
During content upload, discovered that logbook content was missing
Had to remake entire logbook from beginning
Bot Remake
Lasercut a new bot chassis, dubbed "SharkBot"
Placed boards on new body
Constructed a "Tiva deck"
FARMER
Assembled module structure
Opted for magnetic lid design
Mounted and soldered IMU LED display
Tuesday, May 23
Layout Revisions
Discussed new chassis layout and considerations for
Fan
FERRET catcher
Bumper
Completed chassis CAD for LaserCutter reservation tomorrow
Logic Distribution
Completed logic distribution board for directing Tiva signals to DOG boards
Creation of Final Circuits
Moved FARMER and DOG XBee circuits and the IMU circuit from breadboards to soldered on protoboards
FARMER
Laser cut electronics module structure from foam core
Monday, May 22
Remote Thrust Control
Used accelerometer to remotely control DOG
Validated driving control algorithm
Determined that control algorithm must be modified
FARMER
Successfully displayed IMU data from DOG on the FARMER LED test-setup (see video)
Designed CAD for electronics module in inner tube
Sunday, May 21
Mouth/Tail Prototyping and TREAT Progress
Implemented electromechanical display via shark mouth/tail
Began developing TREAT for lift control
Began testing integrated FARMER setup
Connected the DOG-Select cup (with LEDs), the accelerometer, and the pairing mechanism
FARMER circuitry
Soldered and mounted microphone circuit
Saturday, May 20
Electrical completion and Shark Tail Experiments
Put relevant electrical components onto HoverBuddy
Conducted SpinTest
Determined TLE chips must have <7V for logic inputs
Discussed driving control algorithm
FARMER
Completed circuitry and housing of DOG select mechanism
Friday, May 19
Power Circuit Completion and HoverBuddy Construction
Soldered TLE circuits
Completed power circuit for DOG
Made thrust motor stands from pink foam
Dubbed "HoverBuddy"
Thursday, May 18
Power Circuit Progress
Continued fabrication of power circuit for dog
Consulted TLE from past project for wiring of H-Bridge
FARMER
Soldered accelerometer circuit
Implemented tilt service in software
Wednesday, May 17
Power Circuit Fabrication
Purchased spade connectors and switches from Ace hardware
Began soldering power distribution busses
FARMER
Prototyped DOG select cup from laser cut acrylic and straws/chopsticks.
Tuesday, May 16
TLE Purchase
Purchased TLE5206 H-Bridges for bidirectional thrust fan control
Monday, May 15
Proposed DOG revisions and Power Circuitry
Discussed locations for components and circuits on DOG
Considered a horizontal fan orientation (taken from other groups)
FARMER
Designed and 3D printed conch shell
Sunday, May 14
Digital Control Testing
Sent a pair request to HoverBuddy from terminal and Xbee
Ran abridged state machine that turned on lift and thrust fans digitally
Sensor and State Machine Developments
Generated square wave from microphone sensor
Used accelerometer to generate analog signal
Checkoff
Checked off
Saturday, May 13
Initial Prototyping Success
Made hovercraft from lasercut foam core board
Tested lift fan
Yielded near-frictionless hovercraft, dubbed "HoverBuddy"
Pairing Success
Sent a pair command over Xbee
State Machines
Discussed systemic functionality and composed state machines
FARMER IMU Display
Prototyped LED display
Thursday, May 11 - Friday, May 12
Power Circuit Development and Initial Prototyping Efforts
Constructed circuit for battery power of lift fan
Made several rounds of prototypes
Learned that lift fan must go outside of skirt cavity
Experimented with skirt designs
FARMER Sensor prototyping
Successfully prototyped accelerometer and microphone circuits
Friday, May 5 - Wednesday, May 10
Purchasing and Preliminary Hardware Testing
Bough propellers and motors from AeroMicro
Bought skirt Nylon from Joann fabrics
Began testing circuitry for motors
Wednesday, May 3 - Thursday, May 4
Project planning and ideation
Discussed general content ideas
Decided on Shark Theme
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