Week 10: Machine week
My contributions for the project were mostly project management, integration, and setting up electronics (with much help from Jake!)
You can see the full project here.
This was the initial milestone breakdown starting Sunday November 10th. We worked in our siloed teams until the weekend before the project was due, with the deadline for full set up to be Sunday night November 17th. Monday and Tuesday before class were meant to be buffer days for debugging and final details. The buffer days were much needed given a few issues with had with several of the printing jobs failing throughout the weekend and extra time needed to calibrate the machine and the code.
See below the team assignments from November 10th and a breakdown of tasks and notes to get started.
With big teams, the biggest issue is communication, so it never hurts to over communicate. That was my role in project - communication and coordinating. During the last few days, I did heavy task tracking to manage the interdependencies between tasks (e.g., frame and wire management before filming). I personally hate late nights and they ruin my week (i'm almost 30! too old for this.)
Tracking screenshots below
Outside of project management, I helped with setting up the router so we were ready to test on Saturday. We ended up changing this and having the h-bridge connect directly to the computer without routing through the main frame and all 4 motors connected through the router. We did not use the servos or the solenoid provided but ordered a solenoid online.
I also helped with other small tasks like soldering (did this with Adi) and printing parts
