Hoverbear Log

Week of March 3rd

March 9

12:00pm - 2:30pm: Lucas and James worked together through Facetime. While Lucas worked on some coding, James created a base for the hovercraft and attached fan. Craft had a little bit of lift. Then, Lucas guided James through creating a skirt for the craft. When the skirt was added, much more lift was achieved. James made a video of the craft gaining lift and added it to the log.

File:Hoverbearvid.m4v

Hoverbear up and running

March 7

10:00pm - 10:30pm: Lucas, Michael, and James met. Lucas gave James the Delta Fan and other physical materials. Lucas filled out the Midterm Assessment. 2:50pm - 3:30pm: Lucas added a video section to the main page of Hoverbear and worked on coding.

March 6

5:00pm - 6:00pm: Michael identified possible bases to use for the hoverboard from the library, waited for a second opinion on his choices, then delivered the poster board to Lopata.

11:00pm - 11:30pm: Lucas added code to Github.

March 4

8:00pm - 9:00pm: James and Lucas tested out the Talentcell with the Delta Fan. At half charge, the Delta Fan was able to lift slightly (less than .25 cm) off the ground. Lucas spent the rest of the time exploring shedding weight off of the Delta Fan.

3:00pm - 3:30pm: James went to Hitzeman to get the battery. It arrived, and will be brought to Lucas later.

12:30pm - 12:45pm: Michael did some research online to try and find a suitable piece of cardboard that doesn't cost $30 in shipping.

9:00am - 9:30am: James went to Hitzeman to get the battery, it still was not there due to some problems with shipping.

9:45am - 10:15am: Lucas organized the budget and put it into table form so it can be easier to read on the main wiki page for the Hoverbear Log. I'll try to update the pi-graph before Spring Break.

March 3

9:00pm - 9:15pm: Lucas and James called on the phone. James says he can work on the Hoverbear on Saturday and part of Sunday since he is leaving for Spring Break a little late. I'll give back the Delta fan and Ultrasonic Distance Sensor to him before then so he has the materials he needs to do so.

March 2

10:00 am - 11:15am: James went to Hitzeman multiple time trying to get battery but not there.

Week of February 24th

February 26

3:00pm - 3:45pm: Lucas found a rechargeable Lithium Ion battery that was under the price of $30.00, 12V, 3,000mAh, and USB portable.

February 27

4:30pm - 5:00pm: Michael worked on the nightlight box design, but realized that more specific dimensions may be needed to more precisely locate where the holes would need to be placed for the photoresistor, switch and LEDs.

February 25

12:30pm - 12:45pm: Michael took dimensions of the nightlight to be able to better build the box

8:00pm - 8:30pm: Lucas received one Delta fan, the servomotors, and one Ultrasonic Distance Sensor from James. Lucas found some code online that tests the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor and repeatedly outputs the closest object. The Ultrasonic Distance Sensor worked as expected when connected to an Arduino with the uploaded code.

February 24

3:30pm - 5:30pm: James went out and met with a battery professional at batteries + bulbs but came up empty-handed. We will go out again a day this week to get the battery but at least the other parts have been received at the mail center.

3:00pm - 3:30pm: Lucas researched coding for the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor.

Week of February 17th

February 23

11:00am - 12:00pm: The materials, not including the battery and cardboard, were picked up from Hitzeman.

February 18

12:30pm - 12:45pm, 2:00pm - 2:30pm: Michael added the finishing touches to the "blinky" code, took video and uploaded both of these things to the github repository.

February 17

8:30pm - 9:15pm: Michael wrote a blink code for the Arduino and made a bunch of small changes to the log.

Tentative goals for the coming week: Take the measurements for the nightlight case and build it in SolidWorks, get presentation approved, order parts for the project.

February 16

1:00pm - 4:00pm: Lucas took time to learn Arduino programming language.

Week of February 10th

February 15

3:00pm - 4:00pm: Lucas, Michael, and James met at class and listened to presentations.

4:00pm - 4:45pm: Lucas re-re-refinalized the budget.

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Michael soldered the nightlight successfully. Pictures of the nightlight circuit can be found here: [1].

February 12

8:00pm - 8:30pm: Lucas found a possible 12V battery to add to the budget.

7:00pm - 8:00pm: Lucas, Michael, and James met together and organized the wiki.

3:00pm - 4:00pm: Lucas worked on the budget and put a pie graph of the budget onto the main Hoverbear page as well as the preliminary presentation and added to the log.

7:00pm - 8:00pm: Michael worked on the log and tinkered with some settings and formatting (apparently trying to get hyperlinks to display other text doesn't work), uploaded the new circuit board diagram, and helped other group members with a few minor things.

February 11

5:00pm - 5:30pm: Michael created the updated version of the circuit board diagram which better reflects the fact that the nightlight components are being soldered into a perf board and not a breadboard. This newer file can be seen to the right.

6:00pm - 8:15pm: James worked on the preliminary presentation.

Michael uploaded the circuit diagram for the night light that was made on the previous day. This file is no longer up to date, but if you wish to see it, it can be viewed here: [2]

Week of February 3rd

February 10th

7:00pm - 9:15pm: James made the Gantt chart.

8:30pm - 9:30pm: Michael drew up a circuit diagram.

February 9th

4:00pm - 4:45pm: Lucas edited the presentation for the preliminary group presentation.

February 7th

5:00pm - 6:00pm: Michael and Lucas met together to establish a rough template of the preliminary group presentation and also organized the main page. James took some time to meet up and they talked about potential goals for the coming week. Michael will finish the perf board diagram.

February 6th

5:00pm - 5:30pm: Our group met with Professor Feher and discussed where we are at currently in terms of the nightlight and the hoverboard and how we can proceed from our current position. We have a video of the breadboard working, but the file type (.3gp) was not compatible with the wiki, and the converter I tried using added a massive watermark that obscured the contents of the video, so for the time being there is no video.

8:00pm - 9:00pm: Michael worked the basic formatting for the wiki page and edited and expanded the group log.

11:15pm - 11:30pm: Michael attempted to get the video uploaded to the wiki for a bit before deciding that the best course of action would be to simply re-record at a future point in time.

February 4th

7:00pm - 8:30pm: Our group completed the nightlight circuit, and established some tentative future meeting times.

February 2nd

1:15pm - 1:45pm: Our group worked on the project proposal and discussed whether to use a Raspberry Pi or Arduino.

Week of January 27th

February 1

3:00pm - 4:00pm: In class, our group received all of the pieces needed to create a working nightlight circuit. We set up a time to work on the nightlight and assigned James to work on the budget and project proposal.

January 28

10:00pm - 11:00pm: Our group met at Umrath House to establish what our project should be. We came to the conclusion that we would make a hoverboard of some sort that would be able to maneuver around obstacles.

12:00pm - 12:30pm: Our group met with Professor Feher in Urbauer Hall 015, where we discussed what we would be doing. We will be spending a decent number of our future meetings.

Link to Project page

Hoverbear