Pi Car Discovery/Logs

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Week 1 (Sept.3rd ~ Sept.7th)

• Brainstormed on possible project ideas.
• Scheduled a meeting with Professor.
• Decided the best strategies about this project.
• Aimed at doing Pi Car as our projects.

Week 2 (Sept.10th ~ Sept.14th )

• James and George finished the Night Light project on the breadboard and made it work. (3hrs)
• James and George created team weekly logs and project page. (1hrs)
• Zimon found the purchase link to the puttie car.
• Discussed plan for week 3 with Dr. Feher and TA David. (0.5hrs)

Videos of Night Light on the breadboard:

Picture of Night Light Parts:

• Plan for next week: Finish Night Light Project; Update log and project page; Finalize proposal and Gantt chart; Purchase materials for Pi Car.

Week 3 (Sept.17th ~ Sept.21st)

Monday:

• James learned how to use wiki and update what we have done on the wiki, project page. (2hrs)
• George and James finished the inside part of the Night Light design. (1hrs)
• George wrote project proposal; Zimon and James reviewed (1hrs)
• Zimon designed the Gantt Chart. (1hr)
• Zimon designed the Night Light shell. (3hrs)

Tuesday:

• Zimon fixed the "Night Light" shell and hand the STL file to TA. (2hrs)
• James created the "Night Light" parts picture (0.25hrs)

Thursday:

• James fixed project proposal (2hrs)
• George created the budget chart (1hr)
• Zimon created the Gantt chart (1hr)
• James and George created the powerpoint for the presentation (2hrs)
• Zimon communicated with Dr. Feher by email (0.5hrs)

Friday:

• Weekly meeting with Dr. Feher and TA David (0.5hrs)
• Divided tasks for next week (0.25hrs)

Next Week:

• Learn to use SSH / Arduino
• Learn to use Raspberry Pi
• Use open CV on Pi Car
• Learn to use PIPE (Python package)

Week 4 (Sept.24th ~ Sept.28st)

Thursday:

• James learned how to operate Arduino: use Arduino to control the light on a bread board (3hrs)
• James tried to understand the operations behind Arduino (1hr)
• George tried to understand the Raspberry Pi operations (start the program) (4hrs)
• Zimon fixed the broken Night Light shell (3hrs)
• Zimon fixed the Gantt chart (0.5hrs)

Friday:

• Weekly meeting with Dr. Feher and TA David (0.5hrs)
• Divided tasks for next week (0.25hrs)

Next Week:

• Operate Pi Car with Python
• Use open CV on Pi Car
• Learn to use PIPE (Python package)

Week 5 (Oct.1st ~ Oct.5th)

Wednesday:

• Whole group meet with other groups in Green Hall (0.5hrs)
• Whole group gathered information about how to communicate between Pi and Arduino; how to connect camera, lidar, and encoder (2hrs)
• James worked on relatively complex projects on Raspberry Pi (1hrs)

Output

• James made Arduino communicated with Raspberry Pi (3hrs)

• James and George made Pi communicated with Arduino (2hrs)

• George worked on camera and lidar (4hrs)
• Zimon worked on the encoder(3hr)
• Zimon fixed the Gantt chart (0.5hrs)

Friday:

• Weekly meeting with Dr. Feher and TA David (0.5hrs)
• Divided tasks for next week (0.25hrs)

Next Week:

• Download OpenCV and work on it
• Try to build the car once we get it

Week 6 (Oct.8th ~ Oct.12nd)

Monday:

• Group meeting: discussed midterm evaluation form (1hr)
• Whole group wrote midterm report (0.5hrs)
• George and James downloaded Open CV (2hrs)