Attending Members: Nick, Trung, Shane
Nick received the parts that we needed for the most(if not all) of the components we need for the sonic sensors, haptic vibrating motor, and Arduino. Trung and Nick have begun to program and assemble the Arduino, and sonic sensor. Shane researched the haptic motors and how they are used.
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| Trung and Nick assembling a basic circuit to test an led screen with Arduino for the purpose of testing the sonic sensor |
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| This is the LED screen, Arduino, and a disconnected sonic sensor being assembled. |
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| This is the same circuit as above. Notice the screen is unreadable. |
We
ran into a problem setting up the testing LED screen. We had to adjust
the amount of voltage it was receiving because the voltage going to it
was too much. This made the screen display very bright and would not
allow us to read the data being out put once we assembled the sonic
sensor circuit.
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| A similar circuit using Arduino and a sonic sensor |
During this research we realized that by adding a variable resistor know we could more easily adjust he brightness of the LED screen and solve that issue. Afterward including this in the circuit we were able to read the testing LED screen.
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| This is the Arduino with the new circuit and testing display LCD screen now functional |
Additionally, the team researched using a GoPro for Photogrammetry in order to verify
our sensor's distance measurements. This seems like it may be a good
way to present and record data for our project. However, the
programming and computation required may present an issue.
