Meeting to Finish Things Up

Today Bobby and I met in the computer lab in a meeting that is about finishing up the project. First, we discussed the laser cut parts we received and the various problems that were discovered with them.

All our parts thus far

All the problems can be solved with relative ease; one problem requires the piece to be filed whilst another requires being cut again to make the hole larger. Many pieces came out perfectly however so it was a large success. We also picked out the propeller from three choices, with the victor being the one with bigger blades.

For the most part, our meeting was based on what needed to be done next since there wasn't much that can be done at the moment. First what we want to do is assemble all our laser cut pieces together. We are meeting with William tomorrow morning and doing this with the Marine Epoxy mentioned in the previous post. This will keep our vessel together as well as water proof.

Next we are still waiting for our 3D printed parts that will complete our assembly and  final word if Professor Sullivan is able to get the Bluetooth to work. The 3D parts should be done soon. If the Bluetooth doesn't work, we will have to revert to using IR controllers instead.

So at the moment we are still just waiting for most of the work to be done and have our code to be tested and debugged. Here is my code for the servo motor that we talked about in our meeting. Bobby mentioned how two pins could be utilized, however thinking about it, if we initialize the position to be at 90 degrees in the setup, do we really need to use two pins for 0-90 and 90-180 degrees?