Difference between revisions of "Team:Sherbrooke/Notebook"
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<li><b>Done This Week</b> | <li><b>Done This Week</b> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
| + | <li>Meeting with Acrolab Ltd. to discuss about heat pipe prototyping for the <i>MC96</i></li> | ||
| + | <li>Improve User interface</li> | ||
| + | <li>Improvement of the 3D design of the <i>MC1.5</i></li> | ||
| + | <li>Programmation of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language</li> | ||
| + | <li>Starting the scientific paper about the project</li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
</li> | </li> | ||
<li><b>Objectives for the Next Week</b> | <li><b>Objectives for the Next Week</b> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
| + | <li>Design a temperature control algorithm</li> | ||
| + | <li>Implementing the turbidity function in the <i>TAC</i></li> | ||
| + | <li>Programming the microcontroller for the <i>TAC</i></li> | ||
| + | <li>Ending the improvements of the 3D design of the <i>MC1.5</i></li> | ||
| + | <li>Continuing the scientific paper about the project</li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
</li> | </li> | ||
<li><b>Problems encountered</b> | <li><b>Problems encountered</b> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
| + | <li>Heat pipes very expensive (about 90$ per heat pipe)</li> | ||
| + | <li>Heat sinks are not yet arrived</li> | ||
| + | <li>Holes in the aluminium piece for the <i>MC1.5</i> are too tight for the 1.5 ml tube</li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
</li> | </li> | ||
Revision as of 23:51, 6 August 2015
Notebook
Week 1 (January 14 to January 21)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Each part of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Assembling the Project Overview Statement
- Starting to acquire knowledge
- Starting to build the OPENTRONS's robot
- Problems encountered
- Assignment of the POS's parts to team's members
- Internal communications not efficient (Too much posts on the Facebook wall)
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 2 (January 22 to January 28)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Assembling the Project Overview Statement
- Thinking about an efficient way to organise internal communications
- First mecanical designs of the modules
- First experimentations done on Peltier elements
- Objectives for the Next Week
- First experimentations on magnets
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Optic density circuit board up and running
- Problems encountered
- No Instuction received from Opentron to build their robot
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 3 (January 29 to February 4)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Preliminary mecanical design of the MC96
- Finalizing the reserch on Peltier elements and photoreceptors
- Choosing microcontroller used in each modules
- Meeting with Opentrons
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Continuing experimentations on magnets
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Optic density circuit board up and running
- Starting to order pieces for first prototypes
- Problems encountered
- Disagreement with Mecatronix team about the microcontroller choice
- Machining of some metal parts are too complex for university's tools
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 4 (February 5 to February 11)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Experimentations and order of magnets
- Modeling of the turbidity function
- 3D modeling of all modules
- Heat transmission simulation of the TAC
- Split the Project Management Plan (PMP) into individual parts
- Correction of the individual parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Assembling the corrected parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Heat transmission simulation of the MC96 and MC1.5
- Order Peltier elements
- Peer review of team's performance
- Problems encountered
- Difficult choice between multiples 3D designs for the MC96
- Difficult choice between different types of magnets, due to many constraints (mecanical and physical)
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 5 (February 12 to February 18)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Assembling the corrected parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
- Heat transmission simulation of the MC96 and MC1.5
- Peltier elements received and characterized
- Peer review of team's performance
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Finishing Heat transmission simulation
- Starting electrical plans for the TAC
- Finishing Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Midterm project audit
- Problems encountered
- Courses overload for 4 members of the team
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 6 (February 19 to February 25)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 7 (February 26 to March 4)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 8 (March 5 to March 11)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 9 (March 12 to March 18)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Simulation of Peltier Element electrical behavior
- Adapt Psoc4 microcontroller code to Psoc5 microcontroller
- 3D Design of the liquid cooling system for MC96
- Second iteration of the User Interface after the client feedback
- Programming of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Building the H bridge
- Starting the PCB electrical design
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with same aluminium piece as the TAC
- Establish communication between User interface and microcontroller
- Problems encountered
- Aluminium piece for the TAC arrived late
- No electrical simulation model for desired H bridge pieces
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 10 (March 19 to March 25)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Adapt PWM output of the H bridge to a steady DC level for Peltier element
- First TCP communication between User interface and Rasberry Pi 2
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with same aluminium piece as the TAC
- Starting Programmation of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Design a PCB to adapt the Banana Board output for Peltier element
- Peltier element heat transfert experimentation with same aluminium piece as the MC1.5
- Establish communication between User interface and microcontroller
- Problems encountered
- New Peltier elements are not yet arrived
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 11 (March 26 to April 1)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Meeting with Acrolab Ltd. to discuss about heat pipe prototyping for the MC96
- Improve User interface
- Improvement of the 3D design of the MC1.5
- Programmation of the Rasberry pi 2 in Python language
- Starting the scientific paper about the project
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Design a temperature control algorithm
- Implementing the turbidity function in the TAC
- Programming the microcontroller for the TAC
- Ending the improvements of the 3D design of the MC1.5
- Continuing the scientific paper about the project
- Problems encountered
- Heat pipes very expensive (about 90$ per heat pipe)
- Heat sinks are not yet arrived
- Holes in the aluminium piece for the MC1.5 are too tight for the 1.5 ml tube
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 12 (April 2 to April 8)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 13 (April 9 to April 15)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 14 (April 16 to April 22)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 15 (April 23 to April 29)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 16 (April 30 to May 6)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 17 (May 7 to May 13)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 18 (May 14 to May 20)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 19 (May 21 to May 27)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Week 20 (May 28 to June 3)
Instrumentation
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered
Mecatronix
- Done This Week
- Objectives for the Next Week
- Problems encountered