Week 9

The overall accomplishments that was done this week include getting the entire system getting working end-to-end, by integrating our new powerful motor, electromagnet, as well as the compound spring.

Accomplishments:

1. Mechanical
   1. Reinforced the Wood base by using extra aluminium ribs
   2. Attached new electromagnet around to the robot base, making sure it has enough power
2. Electrical
   1. Cleaned up the wiring system, combined more wires using ribbon cables
   2. Wired the new electromagnet and the wiper motor to the motor driver and the power supply.
3. Software
   1. Added more comments to the overall code on the Raspberry Pi
   2. Fixed the Arduino code to run the electromagnet and motor
4. Integration
   1. Integrated the electromagnet, new motor with the robot base, and mounted everything on the pioneer.

Challenges:

1. Mechanical
   1. New compound spring made of new material, as well as getting weight reduction on the metal piece of the electromagnet
2. Electrical
   1. Cleaning up wiring, as well as making sure new electromagnet is getting enough current to hold down the swinging piece
   2. Making the electromagnet and motor work together required the old motor driver and a capacitor in parallel
3. Software
   1. Getting the software to work with the new setup
4. Integration
   1. Getting everything to work

Next Week - to Competition

1. Mechanical - None planned
2. Electrical - None planned
3. Software
   1. Implement any launching changes to motor setup
4. Integration
   1. Make the bean bag launching more accurate