2019/2020 SpartanSuperway Small Scale Team

SSST Blog 10/17/19 Progress for the week: Controls Team  This week for the controls team, Asmaa continued working on combining the two main Arduino codes which we have so far. One of the codes was the one which implemented the ultrasonic sensor to get the motor to slow down if the ultrasonic sensor detected an object too close to it. This mimics what we want the bogies and pods to do once they are fully operational, it is essentially collision prevention system to where if a pod gets too close to another pod, the ultrasonic sensors will detect the proximity, and get the motor to slow down. The other Arduino code which we have is for the BLE. Using a pre mad app to test if the BLE works, Asmaa wrote a code to enable the Arduino to turn an LED on and off depending on the input of the user on the app. If we typed 1, the LED would turn on and if we typed 0, the LED would turn off. Asmaa combined both of these codes into one, with the slight difference that once we have our own iOS ap

Blog 11/14/2019 Progress for this week: Controls This week the controls team continued learning about hoe to integrate the BLE into the the project. This consisted of watching many videos and reading several indepth tutorials. It should not take much longer to be abel to successfully integrate the BLE into the iOS app. Another task which the team has been working on is testing the new stepper motor that arrived. From the testing that was done, it was concluded that modifications may have to be made to either the code or the circuit to properly use the driver board. Guideway Team The Small Scale Guideway Group focused on modifying parts of the track to fit the required dimensions. The overall size of the track will be 96 inches long and 48 inches wide. Straight parts of thr track will be in increments of 16 inches while the curved parts will be modified to adjust for the inner and outter curvature of the track. Overall, the model will consist of pieces that will fit onto one ano

Progress for this week: Controls Team: The team successfully tested the HM 10 BLE module by connecting it to the Arduino and wrote a simple code to turn an LED on and off. Using an existing App called "HM10 Bluetooth Serial Lite", we were able to connect the BLE module to the app. The app allowed us to send information by typing messages like 0 or 1. We then wrote an Arduino code to receive the signal from the BLE module and print a message to the serial monitor and turn the LED on if signal received is 1 and turns it off if zero. Figure 1: HM 10 Arduino Code The Guideway Team: The Guideway Team has been modifying the CAD model of the track to implement new designs. We are adding dowel pins to have accurate alignment between the guideway pieces.  The team as a Whole We prepared a short presentation for the Podcar City Conference. Julio represented our team and presented the main goal of our team as well as our design choices for the track, bogie, and co