Week of Nov 4

Nov 7

Members present: Dat, Steven, Usama

Today we weighed the decision of the project idea heavily upon two options, the glove-controlled hand and the "useless" machine. Although the useless machine was funny and had many possibilities for variation, the decision ultimately fell upon choosing the glove-controlled hand because the concept was a bit challenging and overall, would be cooler than a useless machine.

The idea is as such: A glove would house flex sensors (the analog input) which would control some servo motors. These servo motors would then control the movement of "fingers," thus producing a hand-shadowing sort of mechanism. Plastic-printed "knuckles" or "phalangeal joints" would attach the phalanges of the fingers together. The possibility of incorporating an IR remote was also mentioned, but requires further research.

This upcoming weekend is going to be dedicated to writing "pseudocode," or the general flow of the code that would be required for this mechanism, as well as design of the plastic-printed knuckles. Design of the overall layout of servos and the mechanism will also begin this weekend.

-Dat

Nov 5

Members present: Dat, Kendrick, Steven

During this meeting, the group brainstormed various ideas for the design project (see list below). We also set up a dummy g-mail account (22201.804.dksu@gmail.com), organized the Google drive to use for file exchange, and set up this Blogger account (http://22201804dksu.blogspot.com/). The name of the blog and the name of the group are temporary until we think of something good.

Possible Ideas for the Project:

- Glove-controlled animatronic hand

- "Useless machine"

- Sumo robot

- Wii-controlled rubber-band cannon

-Dat