Week 13 documentation

Assignment for this week is to build some kind of machine as a group.
Since things are moving quickly and I'm not super confident in anything in particular its a bit difficult to get involved.
We decided on an actuated camera rail that we can automate.

OK so I ended up helping assembling this linear rail.


Friday:
assemble linear rail system:
- use pre designed system from the recitation repo
- double click objects in cad file to display their names, right click and hide to hide/ or show in browser
- different types of m5x10 screws with flat heads etc.
Saturday:
- static dhcp for consistent IP address for the raspberry pis.
- connected to the router by resetting it then connecting to it on my laptop and going to the ip address labeled on the router
- then went into the setting under LAN IP to assign an ip address for the mac address of my laptop. can check by using ifconfig in terminal
- then did the same for two raspberry pi. One of them had to be flashed to have the correct img. Interfaced using monitor keyboard and mouse (can also access remotely through ssh)
- worked on figuring out the name assignemnt for webcams that get connected to the RPs, looked up some commands with chatgpt and started working on a udev script to assign a consistent name for the right video mode. Looked up attributes and connected usb devices etc. v4l2-ctl somthing


I also assembled vincy's 2axis stacked servo design.