WALL-E Weekly Log
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September 16
We met with our TA Andrew and completed the project proposal! We figured out our original Bluetooth option wasn't great, so we are now looking at a Bluetooth shield instead. We also found out we would have to power our robot, so we included batteries in our budget.
September 23
We revised our first project proposal to have a direct application and objective. Instead of just roaming around avoiding obstacles listlessly, our project's goal is to create a robot that can lead a blind person while avoiding obstacles. Synchronizing a group of sensors to work together, creating code to lead a person and creating a helpful app to communicate to the follower are new updated challenges we will face. We updated our Gantt chart to reflect this and assigned tasks to each project member.
September 30
This week we further worked on the project page, fixing both budget and reference errors. We met with our TA and went over some of the code which used pulse width modulation to send different voltages to speed/stop the motors on the RC car. Further researched how to use the HRC sensors, import the library and methods to call the sensors in Arduino. Also studied on how to connect and use the Bluetooth shield which actually comes with a pre-built app already which could turn out to be a useful starting point for our own app.
