Below is a Gannt chart I made to track all of the different tasks I had remaining for the project, for project planning purposes:
For simplicity, here was a day-by-day schedule for the last week:
Below are some progress updates:
What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
See above progress schedule trackers and Gannt chart to read what tasks were completed and which were left to remain.
What's working?
what's not?
The gear motor, button, and buzzer are all working properly. However, I was unable to get the MicroSD card to play music (due to the difficulty in coding since the ESP32 is less supported by libraries than Arduino). Also, I had major struggles trying to get the motor to be secured in place while it rotated the gears, and in the end I printed a 3D fixture to hold the servo motor in place.
What questions need to be resolved?
What libraries (and what code) can I use to program the ESP32 microcontroller so that it can play music from the microSD card breakout board?
How can I further design the motor securely so that the design is more robust? How can I better design the gear motor mechanism with higher torque, less friction (e.g. something other than hot glue gun to secure certain parts of the gears), and some metal piece that goes through and attaches to the motor from the top of the smallest head gear of the turtle?
What will happen when?
See above Gannt chart & schedule for details.
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