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James's Weekly Progress
James's Weekly Progress
Monday: Today, Luke and I began milling the components that we need for our portion of the project. In class, I marked out the lengths of the bars and verified all the dimensions of the drawings. After school, we went to his robotics HQ and milled the parts.
Tuesday: No School
Wednesday: I did as much assembly as I could with the milled parts that we have and I 3D printed the pickguard and solenoid caps.
Thursday: I looked for glue to attempt to attach the solenoid caps to each of the solenoids, but rethought the design and opted for bigger ones that have a tighter fit to omit the glue.
Friday: I attached the larger caps to the solenoids that I have. I looked for an 8-32 die but realized that I can use the nut as a die for the threaded rod. This morning, Andrew and I also tested some parts of the circuit board to ensure accurate connections.
Luke's Weekly Progress
Luke's Weekly Progress
Monday: I was on an orchestra field trip to EHS. Began manufacturing aluminum parts for the guitar picking mechanism. I taught James how to use a manual mill to make the parts accurately.
Tuesday: No school.
Wednesday: Made some small changes to the website. Answered questions from Frederick. Made a plan for testing. Gave files to James to be 3D printed.
Thursday: Tested fretting mechanism with the new rubber caps. When pressed my hand, the solenoids where able to change the note well. I then energized the solenoid and it was able to change the note but produced a buzzing sound. I believe this is because I need to move the point where it presses on the string closer to the fret. I will also remake the caps to be more squishy to experiment.
Friday: Another orchestra field trip to NIU.
PXL_20260319_145932796.mp4Manual actuation testing (Bass is out of tune)
PXL_20260319_151343059.mp4Energized solenoid testing
Andrew's Weekly Progress
Andrew's Weekly Progress
Monday: Music in Our Schools
Tuesday: No School
Wednesday: Looked at more potential Midi files for the project to play. I also tested the connection on the headers with the ICs, and they looked like they would work with some effort.
Thursday: Soldered the Female Headers onto the PCB, but the connection was bad for the ICs. So, we will buy IC sockets so that we have good connections for all ICs.
Friday: Soldered Headers onto the other Teensys, and tested the the Teensy with the Raspberry Pi afterward.
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