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Week 1st
August 29, 2019
Weiming and Jose were looking for a partner
Progress Log
Week 2
September 5th, 2019
Hurricane break
Week 3
September 12th, 2019
Brainstorming for creativity idea. Weiming and Jose were thinking what project will be doing, and they had some ideas like, an smart shopping cart, a portable keyboard that can be fold, and a mouse that can be wear in the hand without need of a smooth surface.
Smart shopping cart
Week 4
September 19th, 2019
Brainstorming for creativity idea, briefly research for valuable topic and create a website. When we were thinking what project will be doing, we had some ideas like a pancake machine that make pancake automatically, also an smart suitcase that can show its weight once is full and closed, and to follow the user instead of pushing or pulling it.
The Automatic Pancake Machine video
Week 5
September 26th, 2019
Other research we had to do was about the weight sensors. What kind of weight sensor we will use, a tension scale or a load scale and where we will position them in the suitcase. We found that using 4 load cells and position then each in the middle of ¼ of the bottom space of the suitcase will be our best option to get the more exact total weight.
We found some web pages where sell this kind of suitcases, and start looking for similar products.
Travelmaterobotics
Smart Luggage Auto-follow 20"
20 inch Scooter Suitcase Ride-on
Week 6
October 3th, 2019
Updating block diagram, project Engineering Requirement table, webpage refines ( access to Jose ), research and combine all necessary information to start the project.
Adapter
Wheel
Motor driver for Arduino
Display
Transceiver
Battery
Arduino
Bluetooth
Scale sensors
Week 7
October 10th, 2019
Research and combine all necessary information to start the project.
Looking for a microprocessor board to use in the project.
The options were ARM Cortex M, FPGA, and Arduino.
We had to do a research about how to control the wheels, if we will use motor control or driver control for the control of the wheels. We also did a research about where the wheels will be positioned to make the suitcase go forward without turning to the left or right using less space when forward.
In our research we found that using 2 steady wheels in front and two free moving wheels in the back for stability will solve our problems. The size and kind of wheels we will use was also into our consideration, because we have move a suitcase that weight may be around 50 kg.
ARM
FPGA
Arduino
Week 8
October 17th, 2019
Working on web page design and updating all information.
Week 9
October 24th, 2019
Start working on the budget, report and webpage.
Week 10
October 31th, 2019
Working on report, ( appointment in the writing center ) and updating the webpage.
Week 11
November 6th and 7th 5, 2019
Working on the report ( appointment in the writing center ), Webpage got disorganized and missing information from some of the pages. Creating a new webpage. Meeting with Ejaz.
Week 12
November 11th and 14th, 2019
Working on the report ( appointment in the writing center), updating the webpage, presentation and meeting Ejaz for last draft report check.
Week 13
November 22th, 2019
Presentation.
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