This past week, I began to test with my team both the bench model that we have had with us all project year long and also with the model mounted on the podcar. With the deadline coming up, our team decided to meet up over the weekend at the shop to work on the project and test out our system on the provisional track while the track team builds the rest of the track. This past Sunday proved to demonstrate to us that there is a lot of fixing that must be done not only to our system but with other team's work as well. The track has some details that need attention in order for our system to run smoothly without having to worry that the podcar will get stuck on the track or will fall off.
In addition, Tim from the mobile app team and I have been in constant contact with regards to implementing his system into our system so that he can control all of the podcar's features. On Sunday, I was amazed to see that he was able to control the speed of the motors as well as control the indicator depending on what color the LED should be lighted as. I still have yet to see that the kill switch works as it is supposed to as well as stopping the podcar if there is an obstacle in front of it. Not much as been done to the code at this point since the app team is making modifications to the code so that they are able to control the system from their computer through the use of Xbees. At this point, I am just hoping for the best and hoping that our project is satisfactory enough to have something to show for at Paseo two weeks from this coming Saturday. We will see what happens in the next coming week which means a whole lot of debugging, fixing, testing, and making fast changes to our design.
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