User:Drew Dollas/enes100/glorious

Link back to team page Glorious

This is where work on my Hover Craft project exists.

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
1. Hovercraft 2. Robot End effector 3. Robot arm 4. Door access

Write problem statement
Make a HoverCraft with an autopilot and sensors that can avoid people yet travel down a crowded school coorridor.

Assign Task1
To look up information on the hovercraft to better understand the entire project, and for me to go out to Joan's to buy a good piece of Styrofoam for our base.

Compare actual work done to Task1
I already understood how a hover craft works for the most part. But what I did not understand, was how the remote control works. I found out it had something to do with radio waves. But my team and I had decided to just use remote control car remotes instead, so now I do not have to try to figure out how it works. Also, I successfully obtained a good piece of Styrofoam for our base. And it came wrapped already in plastic, so we are just going to use that as our skirt.

Week1 Narrative
My teammates and I got the first parts of the hover craft done. The holes through the bottom of the hover craft for the two fans blowing downward have been cut. And the skirt has been tested, and it works well. We needed sensors for our hover craft. And after asking, I found out that we may be able to use the sensors from those Lego robots.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
I am planning on making sure my wiki page is up to date, and we decided that we need to mostly just work on building the hover craft for right now, and I am in North Carolina this weekend, so I cannot meet with them to build it. So we will just continue putting stuff on the hover craft next class.

Compare actual work done to Task2
I glued down the fans

Week2 Narrative
I uploaded two pictures onto our team page.

Assign Task3
I am trying to use the ATI remote to control our hovercraft. But I am having difficulty getting it to work. I took it home and was messing with it, but I was not able to figure anything out that will help our hover craft.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Trying to plug the USB from the ATI remote receiver directly into the Arduino was too confusing for me, so I cut off the USB portion and used just the wires to try to get something working. Having the different wires in the different spots on the Arduino board did make a difference in the lights on the Arduino board. I pulled up the data sheet of the main IC of the ATI reciever. And it seemed to be a D flipflop of some sort, because there is a D+ and a D- wires for me to attach where I want.

Assign Task4
To continue working with the ATI receiver, and to hopefully get the receiver to react with the Arduino by just pressing buttons on the remote.

Compare actual work done to Task4
I tried putting the wires from the receiver of the ATI remote straight into a bread board and having them turn on an LED using the remote. But I could not get it to work, so I still have not made any progress with this remote.

Week4 Narrative
When I came to class, I saw that we finally got the remote controlled cars in. So I took one of the cars apart and started to try to put the wires from the receiver straight into a bread board to light up an LED to see if I could get it working, but I ran out of time to ee if I could actually get anything working.

Complete Project Page
Link to team page Glorious

Start Next Project Week0 activities
I will try to get the receiver from the remote controlled car to at least turn on and off an LED remotely.