Friday, November 27, 2009

Crunch Time.

Well, we have one week today.

One week to get this robot together, and running. Shiiiite!! So far what has happened is we had to redesign the board twice, because the datasheet VDD doesnt match the board VDD we are using. So the uC wouldnt run because it didnt have the power to do so.

We also removed ALL of my pretty motor control =(... Basically my "original" solution to speed and direction control is not only the oldest method. It happens to be the absolute WORST one concievable. So a new strategy has be planned for that. PWM... a lot more uC intensive but, its the most efficient and made our boardsize from by a factor of like 33%.

So.. what do we have to show for right now? One Slow-ass robot (Measured in at its "fast" setting at 0.6Mph ....yeah. 1km/h Not at all speedy, I have to look into this because, its "robot" fast. Not Fast at all. I want one that's at least capable of walking speed. Its not too hard to get there either, it will just require some interesting implementation and batteries. (Might Borrow Some RC car ones)

We have a pretty schematic, a half retarded robot, and 1 week to fix EVERYTHING, with only 2/4 people competent and one of those already doing everything.


This is my board, 100% designed and built by myself... with input from other people of course

This was another one of those "Man good thing I caught this error before I made the board" That chip there is supposed to run between 3.0 and 3.6V max ... yet ran best at 5V. ...I Know why now, but I didn't expect that to happen. Thats for sure

To finish up, our group is in DEEP. I mean, I have one week to not only finish assemble and test my circuit board to make sure it works, but I need to program, debug and test my code to run on the damn thing!
Compare this to the list that the rest of the group is going to have done by then:
-Fuckall.

...This makes me angry and sad. I know next term I'm going slow and everyone else can work their collective asses off.

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