Week 19 (Feb. 20, 2019): Component Testing & Programming
Our Presentation #1 has been moved from next week – Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – to the following week – Wednesday, March 6, 2019, granting us a reprieve and permitting us more time to get more work done before the presentations. We have been working on several things this past week. David has been working on the Serial communication between the XBee on the Raspberry Pi and the XBee on the Arduino in the pod car. Specifically, he has been working on: acquiring a real-time location of each pod car, determining the distance between the passenger pick-up location and the closest pod car, and determining the distance between the passenger pick-up location and the passenger drop-off location. This past week, Patrick has been working on getting the Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) to run the gimbal. Additionally, he has been working on a barebone circuit, consisting of the induction charger, the LiPo battery charger, and the 3.7V LiPo battery, and the motor. However, using th