Day Thirty-Six

Today I was called off from my encoder work to help the other group integrate my encoder programming with their MMBE (Motor Mind B-enhanced) program. Purpose was to see if the MMBE could take the encoder input and give a processed output. No such luck. They were all working still on relearning to write in SPIN and making an interface program to work between the computer and the MMBE. So, I just spent the day reminding and advising Dave H. and Larry J. regarding their SPIN programs. I offered to Eric F. but he likes doing all his programming alone. Even though I had solutions to his frustrations. Oh well. It was a wasted day for me, but it helped the others progress in our project.

Day Thirty-Five

Now that I have my plan, I will be creating a wire packet (essentially 2 CAT5's with 1 extra strand) for a 17 wire tidy output to go into my board. I'm considering soldering my break lines together so that i need only 13 wires. Giving me 3 spare wires for later on. If I complete attaching the connector tips to the 16 strands of wire before time is out, then I'll start wiring it up and then modify the code. After the code is modified, tested, and works, then I'll post that.

Day Thirty-Four

Today I spent my time designing and planning a new wiring scheme for a multi-encoder program. Which I'll fiddle with later. It's basically the same as the last program posted just with more variables and more wires. Fun!

Day Thirty-Three

Today we had our weekly meeting. We decided what needed doing: interfacing the motor, learning more about the Motor Mind controller cards that Prof. bought for us.

Day Thirty-Two

Studying for PLC II exam, didn't work on the Project. Exam is today.

Edit: I aced my exam, woohoo!

Day Thirty-One

Studying for PLC II exam, didn't work on the Project.

Day Thirty

Researched on how to do an efficient wiring setup for the arms rather that the direct encoder input/output wires. Too messy. At the end of the day, I'm still lost as to which wires I'll actually need to hook up. Will continue when I have time, maybe Day Thirty-Three.