Talk:The Solver
Proposal Review
Your proposal is interesting, but you need to think through a number of problems you are going to face:
- Your budget includes both steppers and servos. Why do you need both? Shouldn't a single type of motor be enough?
- Your budget does not include a motor controller. You mention that the Raspberry Pi will not provide enough power, then where are you going to get that power from?
- Are you sure that a 10W power adapter is enough to power your motors? Why don't you use a standard laboratory power supply instead?
- What are you going to do when the motors do not move exactly 90 degrees? You cannot assume from the beginning that your motor controller will be absolutely perfect.
Your timeline is a bit unrealistic. According to it you already have the CAD designs for the grippers and camera mount, and on Monday morning you will start printing them. At the same time you are leaving 4 weeks to "optimization". This means that "optimization" is 4 times harder than designing the parts (very unlikely). Moreover, just saying "optimization" is vague, you need to divide that into specific tasks explaining what part are you optimizing and what is your strategy to improve the current results.
Also, it is unprofessional (to say the least) that your budget is a pixelated screenshot. I'm not going to type the amazon links letter by letter, so I have no idea what are you planning to buy.
In summary, you need to completely rewrite your timeline, and improve your proposal by being more critical about what are the challenges you are going to face. Also, you need to improve the presentation of your proposal, a one line overview and a photo budget are just not acceptable.
Please meet with your TA to discuss these issues and update your proposal as soon as possible. You have a lot of work to do, so you need to move fast fixing these problems before you can start doing the actual work.
