Spartan Superway ME 195a/b Senior Design Project

Alex Krause SJSU ME 195b Full Scale Controls Team Individual Blog - Week of 4/24 This past week, the team placed an order for our custom PCB's for our controller, and we are continuing to move forward with writing the main program for the system. We are having a little bit of difficulty integrating the dac into our system to control the speed of the motor, but with a little more research we will be able to figure it out in the next couple of days. We also outlined our final report and ordered the rest of the parts needed for our system. 

Alex Krause SJSU ME 195b Full Scale Controls Team Individual Blog - Week of 4/17 This past week, the team continued to work on making the individual electrical components work before we combine them all together into our system. Justin was able to make the motor work completely forwards and backwards. Alan and I have been working on making the linear actuator work with an H-Bridge and relay but we are having trouble making the circuit work. Danny is coming in this week and we will hopefully be able to ask him what is wrong and how to fix it. Lastly, we divided the parts of our final report so we can start on that earlier rather than later.

Alex Krause SJSU ME 195b Full Scale Controls Team Individual Blog - Week of 4/10 This week was our presentation #2 for ME 195b. We made significant progress this past week. Justin was able to make the motor work for a couple of seconds before we burned a 5V relay that had nearly 48V running through it. Luckily, we realized what part we needed to order to fix the problem, so we will have the motors up and running next week. We were also finally able to make two Arduinos talk to each other wirelessly after working on it for over a month. Now that we have these two tasks complete, we will be able to work on the primary code for the next month.