User:Jbrown6389/ComboLockPick

Write problem/project Goal
To help design an efficient way of placing lock in and out of device

Week3 Narrative
I began by creating my own mywork page as well as updating the team page. I plan on working with the parts on thursday. In the meantime, I will sketch some ideas and look for any spare parts we could use in creating a hinge. I now have the bucket in the trunk of my car, and on Thursday I received a switch we could use to determine when the lock is successfully opened. I will take this home with me and see how it fits with the rest of the parts over the weekend.

My Fourth task
I am going to bring the bucket home to work with over the weekend. I want to get everything hands on and get an idea of how all of the parts can truly fit together. More importantly, I want to see if the switch can fit with the current setup or if we need to make any sort of modifications to the current design left for us by the last team.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
I got my hands on everything, and it is apparent that the switch actually fits perfectly with the rest of the design. The switch we were given fits perfectly with the current design, and no further modifications need to be made in order to implement it into the design.

Week4 Narrative
I uploaded a picture of the switch that we found, and I googled ways of wiring it to the arduino. Lynn and I are very bad at that sort of stuff. With finals coming up, I did not have a lot of time to make any real further progress to the project. I drew a few more doodles but nothing too significant

I came up with another idea that seems a little better/cooler than the slider idea. We got a hinge used for a door, and my idea is to use that on the frame. We could use it in a way that the whole frame unfolds. I will have photos of the hinge as well as a sketch of the general idea. They may be sideways though, I'm not sure how to fix that