Merry Christmas Eve! I still can’t get over the fact that I was finishing up my last week of undergrad … More
Category: Engineering Design: Senior Project 2020
Finite State Machine for the Marker Band Sorter
The title pretty much describes this post haha. Special shout out to my loving boyfriend, Tony Nguyen, for helping me … More
Marker Bands Keep Getting Clumped Together
Or they get stuck in the Triangle Feeder (see pics below). It’s mostly 3D-printed (the dog bones were from the … More
Using a TB6600 Stepper Motor Driver
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C++ Lesson Learned – Scope
What great timing! I wanted to learn more about OOP (object oriented programming) concepts, and my senior design project just … More
Pixy2 Camera *CAN* Detect Marker Bands Consistently
Last Friday, Theresa and I tested all kinds of setups to get the Pixy2 Camera to detect the marker bands … More
Pixy2 Camera Cannot Detect Marker Bands Consistently
Things changed up with my senior design project, and we are no longer using the $50,000 camera. With that said, … More
Feeling proud
I usually don’t double post in a day, but I have to say: I’m feeling pretty proud of myself! 😤 … More
Using an A4988 stepper motor driver (Part 2)
In my previous post, I talked about setting up the A4988 stepper motor driver’s current/voltage limit. Today, I finally got … More
Using an A4988 stepper motor driver
**Edit 11/2/2020 : changed the reasoning for multiplying by the constant 8 **Edit 11/3/2020 : used 1A instead of 2A … More